Following the same highly informative yet easy-to-read style that made their other books so successful, Prague and Hammitt offer a tutorial and reference on programming with dBASE IV. Covers customizing applications and programming utilizing all the new features of dBASE IV.

All-inclusive, user-friendly, and filled with helpful illustrations, this groundbreaking work provides the most detailed treatment to date of dBASE IV programming commands, functions, menus, windows, testing and debugging procedures, and documentation techniques.

This is an introduction to systems programming using dBASE IV as a first programming language. The author uses dBASE IV (version 1.1 or 1.5) because it is the easiest language to learn initially, and applications can be up and running more easily and quickly. This textbook is very easy to use. The results of commands are shown on monitor screens illustrated in the text. Page two begins the creation of a data base with immediate interaction with the computer. Students know exactly what they are doing because of the clear and concise explanations and because they have a view of their screens in the text. If the student's screen does not match, he or she can just backtrack. Little backtracking will be necessary because the language is so exact. The text is self-teaching.

This updated book offers a complete course in programming with dBASE IV, Version 1.1.

Provides fast and easy access to information usually hidden in cumbersome manuals. This book has been revised to cover the new commands and functions in version "X" of dBASE IV. Comprehensive in scope, the book presents information on each command and function in the dBASE IV programming language. Commands and functions are listed alphabetically.