Overview of the language and the basic concepts of Quantum spec writing

Constants, numbers and variables

Arithmetic and logical expressions

Types of records, data structure, trailer cards, reserved variables, merging data files and reading non-standard data files

Creating a new data file, copying records to a print file, and writing to a report file

Quantum assignment statements, adding and deleting codes in a column, forcing single-coded answers, setting a random code in a column, reading numeric codes into an array and clearing variables

if and else statements, routing around statements, loops, rejecting records, jumping to the tabulation section and canceling the run

Holecounts and frequency distributions

require statement, column and code validation, and validating logical expressions

Forced cleaning, on-line data correction, creating clean and dirty data files, correcting data from a corrections file, and missing values in numeric fields

Calling subroutines, the subroutines in the Quantum library, writing subroutines, and calling functions from C libraries

Defining variables in your Quantum spec

Data-mapped variables

Compiling and running a Quantum program