art@dinorah.wustl.edu (Arthur B. Smith) (02/15/89)
Hello all,
Pardon the wide posting -- I'm getting a bit desperate. In
the fall I will be teaching a course in programming at St. Louis
University. The course will be in BASIC (consider it already flamed --
it's not my choice, either) on IBM PC's (ditto). I need to come up
with a text (or two) for the course by early April. I thought this
would be easy, but frankly, I haven't found anything worthwhile. I
want this to be a course in programming that happens to be in BASIC
(not the other way around), so I want a book that teaches sound
programming techniques. It should also have exercises that can be
assigned (this is not essential, but is preferable).
I am considering using two texts -- one as a programming text,
and a separate BASIC reference manual. The BASIC we will use is the
standard GW BASIC that comes with the IBM's. By separating the
reference manual from the text, a generic BASIC text could be used, or
even one for another dialect, as long as it's not TOO different :-)
What I'm looking for is recommendations for texts. If you
have any favorites, please let me know. If possible, I would
appreciate getting title, author, publisher (with address if not a
major one), and whether or not it is in print. Please also include a
synopsis, comments, or any other descriptions that you feel may help.
PLEASE SEND THESE DIRECTLY TO ME AS E-MAIL!!! Don't trouble
these poor news groups with this stuff. Besides, it wouldn't do much
good for me, since I rarely seem to get time to read news, and don't
regularly read many of these groups anyway! Mail to me can be sent
to:
(Internet): art@dinorah.wustl.edu (128.252.118.101)
(Usenet): uunet!wucs1!dinorah!art
(US Snail): Art Smith
8642 North Ave.
St. John, MO 63114
(Work phone): (314) 362-2950
(Home phone): (314) 423-0193
Many thanks to all. If there is a lot of interest I'll post a
summary to the groups where the interest lies.
-art