Basic and Quickbasic

[ElderQB]

I recently brought a book on Basic dated 1981 I brought it for 50cents so it no loss if I can't use it . i would like to know if it will be any help in my Quick Basic Programs

[na_th_an]

I can't see how. You probably mean GW BASIC or BASICA. They are quite limited programs 'cause you have to use line numbers and most of structured programming features are not available.

But if you like the challenge...

[Agamemnus]

structured programming is for wimps.

Use real programming.

You declare a fixed size bitstring, and you do if comparisons on bits, "then"s, set bits equal to inverse, 0, and 1, (and bit(n)), and GOTO line N.

There's real programming.

[Glenn]

it was written for is to QuickBasic, if it was written for any specific dialect at all. If it was in fact written for GWBasic, it will probably be quite useful. There's a great amount of overlap between QuickBasic's and GWBasic's statement/function set. If it's by chance GWBasic's manual, don't throw it out. It was written in a much more useful manner than QB's. (It actually, statement by statement, explained how to use them.)

[Agamemnus]

:o :o :o

[toonski84]

meh. qb's isnt perfect, it's more like every other documentation out there, and a little toned down (1 possible example per function, no tutorials).

i'd say it's more of a function listing than anything, but it's got enough to count as documetntation.

as for the book, well, the best thing you can do for yourself when programming is to simply make programs. end of story. experience does wonders. guidence and experience is damn coo.

p.s. 1981? yeah, it's not for qbasic. but glenn is probably right on his point.

[wizardlife]

I have the Programmer's Guide and Reference Manual for QuickBasic 4.1. They're excellent, IMO. Although the online help in QB41 wasn't so great, the offline documentation more than made up for it.