gausewit@acf4.UUCP (Nancy Gausewitz) (03/29/85)
Can anyone recommend a good book on Microsoft BASIC that covers the functions included in version 2? For example, functions window and button. Thanks a lot (on behalf of my Macintosh-owning sister). send replies to (allegra,ihnp4)!cmcl2!acf4!gausewit
spector@acf4.UUCP (David HM Spector) (03/29/85)
Nancy, As far as I know, there are no books on Basic other than the ones originally put out with verision 1.0, but there is a WONDERFUL book on the yet-to-be- release Apple Macintosh BASIC.... DHMS
dtw@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Duane Williams) (03/30/85)
Microsoft did publish a new manual for the new version of of BASIC. The earlier manual had 215 numbered pages. The new one has 311. -- uucp: ..!seismo!cmu-cs-k!dtw arpa: dtw@cmu-cs-k.ARPA
vishniac@wanginst.UUCP (Ephraim Vishniac) (04/01/85)
> As far as I know, there are no books on Basic other than the ones originally > put out with verision 1.0, but there is a WONDERFUL book on the yet-to-be- > release Apple Macintosh BASIC.... > I think the book David Spector refers to here is "Macintosh Basic", an enormous book from Sybex. I saw it in the WaldenBooks in Lexington last week, and it looks both comprehensive and exhaustive. The pages aren't consecutively numbered (I think they were numbered by chapters), but it felt like 300-400 pages. It was priced at $24.95. I'm waiting to see how good the Microsoft documentation with Basic 2.0 is before I invest in a copy of the book. -- Ephraim Vishniac [apollo, bbncca, cadmus, decvax, harvard, linus, masscomp]!wanginst!vishniac vishniac%Wang-Inst@Csnet-Relay