Did you try googling petit professor? He has some okay tutorials that should get you started on making something. They are on YouTube, he shows you the code. So all you have to do is copy his code. Then you can go through the manual to find out what commands do what and why.
Good luck with the programming.
She might want to rip up her master's lol. But wait, at first you said you had books proving it now you're saying you were told it?
Also, no one has commented on your actual grammar, just the misuse of tongue and cheek. Seriously. Google chique and see what it means. Then combine it with tongue and chique and tell me it how it makes sense.
Tongue and cheek has been a saying for over 100 years.
To answer your question. Google. Google how to build a calculator in basic. A simple text calculator, no graphics, no nothing. Make that in smile basic. Then go on YouTube and search up Petit Professor. Watch and emulate his code.
It is not toung an chique that sentence makes NO grammatical sense.
Putting one's tongue into one's cheek was originally used to signify contempt.
With a simple Google search you too can be correct all the time.
What I did was Google "how to make a calculator in basic." And recreated a very very simple calculator. After that I searched YouTube and found Petit Professor. He has tutorials on menus and making sprites walk. Sadly it will only teach you the basics, and he is definitely not the best code writer, but it gets you started down a good path to learning the fundamentals.
That sucks. You can get the old file off the servers as long as you uploaded it there. I remember seeing a post on SBSource about your game. I know it's quite old now but at least it's not square 1