Programming in True BASIC: Problem Solving with Structure and Style

Description

This text has two fundamental objectives: to teach programming concepts in general, and to familiarize the reader with the elements of True BASIC in particular. Taking advantage of True BASIC's user-friendly development environment, the authors teach structured programming principles -- problem solving, top-down modular program design, and structured coding -- to readers with no prior experience. The Second Edition is updated to cover Version 5 of Microsoft's True BASIC programming language. Review: Good book, especially for newbies... - Authors assume nothing, starts from scratch. BASIC seems to be a good language to learn; despite the naysayers. Good fundamentals, and good habits that transfer well to other languages, are best learned early. Lots of cd's available for this language; bronze, silver and gold versions of TrueBASIC, and even works on Windows from what I am told, no VM or DOSbox required... Next; SimpleBASIC, free even,(!) from Microsoft... Gotta start somewhere! ;-) Review: This is a good book - This book covers the True BASIC language well, it is a little out dated concerning the editor, but the documentation that covers the syntax of this version of BASIC, is very good. It was a great buy. Was purchased used, but the seller sent the book in the condition promised, and I saved about $30.00 dollars, verses a new book.