Structured BASIC fundamentals and style for the IBM PC and compatibles

By James S. Quasney

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878352899
• ISBN13: 9780878352890
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Boyd & Fraser Pub. Co

Customer Reviews

High marks for nostalgia only

No matter how sophisticated the programming languages become, I will always have a soft spot in my heart for Basic. It was the first programming language that I learned and my first computer was a TRS-80 model 1. I wrote so many lines of Basic code in my early years that up until only a few years ago and a full decade of working as a programmer; I had written more lines in Basic than any other language. This book is the first book on structured Basic that I ever read. It took me from my joyful but foolish use of multiple go-to's to some ordering of my code. While I confess that it was a hard transition for me, I did make it and have gone on to teach object-oriented programming in C++ and Java at the college level. Looking back through this book brought back many fond memories of banging away on the keys creating meandering code that I always somehow managed to get to work right. Although archaic, it is a language that I will never forget.