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The BASIC Techniques and Utilites Book by Ethan Winer is highly recommended. Many of the techniques lke "reading large chunks of input" are covered in chapter 6. Chapter 9 is dedicated to optimizing code.
Download all the chapters FREE from:
www.ethanwiner.com
Look near the bottom of the homepage for WINER.ZIP.
There are nine chapter, a lot of BAS code, ASM code, etc. There's something there for all of us.
This guy is considered the top authority on QuickBasic.
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I think the guy's kind of full of himself. It's a good book though. But for QBasic? It's too self-explanatory and has too good a documentation for books to be of great necessity.
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i bet he says nothing about making array pointers in array in qb...
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and answer forums then? Simply reading that book would eliminate the need for whole bunches of questions. (Besides, it doesn't have to be a "great necessity" to be useful.)
Quote:I think the guy's kind of full of himself. It's a good book though. But for QBasic? It's too self-explanatory and has too good a documentation for books to be of great necessity.
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