jr@wlcrjs.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg) (11/20/84)
I am teaching a BASIC class under VMS. (No flames please, I druther be teaching c/Unix any day!!! (Some of us paeons don't make these decisions.)) I try valiantly to teach it as a full structured language using the nifty control flow structures analogous to C, i.e. ITERATE <---> continue, EXIT <---> break, etc. I have a beastly reputation at the school for being so nasty as not to allow my students to use goto statements. The problem is there is no textbook I have found which is consistent in philosophy with this approach. Does anybody know of one? There is a book called Structured Basic Programming by Harry A. Moriber, published by Merril. I'm not sure my comments on that book would even be allowed in net.flame. Suffice it to say I have no idea what he means by "structured", but it sure isn't what I mean. If anyone knows of a good book I'd appreciate it. Please mail me any replies -- I check news on out-of-town machines. -Thanks. Jim Rosenberg decvax!idis!pitt!amanuen!jr