This textbook and guide to structured programming in BASIC on the IBM personal computer, presents BASIC as a serious tool for professional quality programming and business problem solving. It stresses logic control structures, including sequence selection and iteration structures, but avoids the use of branching statements. Methods of algorithm representation are emphasized, including flowcharts, pseudocode and hierarchy charts. The book also explains sequential and random access for reading, writing and rewriting data files.

A serious book on applications programming using the IBM

This IBM PC specific programming text emphasizes problem solving and structured programming from the start. The author's goal is to prepare students to write BASIC programs at the earliest possible stage without neglecting vital preparatory skills such as algorithm development.