kkorb@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Kevin Korb) (05/11/91)
Question: what is the best book you know of for neophytes who want to learn how to program by fooling around with GW-BASIC on their PCs? Why is it a good book? Thanks in advance for your answers! Kevin
kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov ( Scott Dorsey) (05/11/91)
In article <1991May10.194550.21655@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> kkorb@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Kevin Korb) writes: > >Question: what is the best book you know of for neophytes who want >to learn how to program by fooling around with GW-BASIC on their PCs? >Why is it a good book? "Oh! Pascal" by Cooper and Clancy. Among other reasons, it a good book because it will tell them that fooling around with GW-BASIC on their PC isn't a good way to learn to program. --scott
thom@garnet.berkeley.edu (Thom Gillespie) (05/11/91)
--Thom Gillespie References: <1991May10.194550.21655@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <1991May10.210857.19675@news.larc.nasa.gov> Sender: Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: University of California, Berkeley Keywords: In article <1991May10.210857.19675@news.larc.nasa.gov> kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov ( Scott Dorsey) writes: >In article <1991May10.194550.21655@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> kkorb@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Kevin Korb) writes: >> >>Question: what is the best book you know of for neophytes who want >>to learn how to program by fooling around with GW-BASIC on their PCs? >>Why is it a good book? > >"Oh! Pascal" by Cooper and Clancy. Among other reasons, it a good book >because it will tell them that fooling around with GW-BASIC on their PC >isn't a good way to learn to program. >--scott
kkorb@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Kevin Korb) (05/12/91)
In article <1991May10.210857.19675@news.larc.nasa.gov> kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov ( Scott Dorsey) writes: >In article <1991May10.194550.21655@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> kkorb@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Kevin Korb) writes: >> >>Question: what is the best book you know of for neophytes who want >>to learn how to program by fooling around with GW-BASIC on their PCs? >>Why is it a good book? > >"Oh! Pascal" by Cooper and Clancy. Among other reasons, it a good book >because it will tell them that fooling around with GW-BASIC on their PC >isn't a good way to learn to program. >--scott Gee, I don't like BASIC any more than you do. But wishing won't make it go away. Kevin
brs@cci632.cci.com (Brian Scherer) (05/13/91)
In article <1991May10.210857.19675@news.larc.nasa.gov> kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov ( Scott Dorsey) writes: >In article <1991May10.194550.21655@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> kkorb@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Kevin Korb) writes: >> >>Question: what is the best book you know of for neophytes who want >>to learn how to program by fooling around with GW-BASIC on their PCs? >>Why is it a good book? > >"Oh! Pascal" by Cooper and Clancy. Among other reasons, it a good book >because it will tell them that fooling around with GW-BASIC on their PC >isn't a good way to learn to program. >--scott Yes, I agree about GW-BASIC, but microsoft has a very good product in their QuickBasic and their professional Development system. You can write some very good structured programs in tthis variation of basic. Yes, before anyone flames me, you can write shitty code in any language. You have to learn how to design and code properly. Brian Scherer
manis@cs.ubc.ca (Vincent Manis) (05/23/91)
In article <1991May10.194550.21655@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Kevin Korb <kkorb@copper.ucs.indiana.edu> writes: >Question: what is the best book you know of for neophytes who want >to learn how to program by fooling around with GW-BASIC on their PCs? >Why is it a good book? Why is this a good strategy? Would it not be better to have a neophyte of this sort learn something useful, such as an interesting data base or similar sort of program? What about Hypercard or Toolbook or something similar? Learning about computers by futzing around with GW-Basic strikes me as being analogous to learning about electricity by sticking paperclips into electric outlets. -- \ Vincent Manis <manis@cs.ubc.ca> "There is no law that vulgarity and \ Department of Computer Science literary excellence cannot coexist." /\ University of British Columbia -- A. Trevor Hodge / \ Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1W5 (604) 228-2394