Microsoft GW-BASIC

Microsoft GW-BASIC
Title Microsoft GW-BASIC PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 420
Release 1989-01
Genre Computers
ISBN 9781556152603

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Introduces the features of the GW-BASIC programming language, and covers the screen editor, files, functions, variables, and operators

Programming in GW-BASIC

Programming in GW-BASIC
Title Programming in GW-BASIC PDF eBook
Author P. K. McBride
Publisher Elsevier
Pages 256
Release 2016-06-06
Genre Computers
ISBN 1483104222

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Programming in GW-BASIC provides a reference guide on GW-Basic along with a range of extra commands and functions. The book discusses starting a program, program planning and the essentials of GW-Basic, including the most commonly used commands; how data is stored in memory; how a program fits together; and the use of the keyboard and screen in editing. The text also describes graphics and color and the string-handling functions. The principles and concepts of program structures, such as the Paintbox program and chaining, and the use of the Turtle graphics, such as Logo and DRAW, are also considered. The book covers two of the key techniques for handling data in quantity (sorting into order and searching for specific items), statistical analysis, and display program. The text then tackles PEEK and POKE, which examine sections of memory and serve as alternative to PRINT for creating screen displays, and advanced graphics, which enables one to analyze the screen, develop first a double-size print utility, then a sprite designer and some movement routines. The selection is useful to computer programmers and students taking computer courses.

Learn BASIC Now

Learn BASIC Now
Title Learn BASIC Now PDF eBook
Author Michael Halvorson
Publisher
Pages 516
Release 1989
Genre Computers
ISBN

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Modelled on the popular Learn C Now this is a completely integrated self-study course that is guaranteed to make BASIC programming as fun to use as it is useful to know. Everything needed to learn modelled, structured programming is on the three disks included

Visual Basic for DOS

Visual Basic for DOS
Title Visual Basic for DOS PDF eBook
Author Namir C. Shammas
Publisher McGraw-Hill Companies
Pages 364
Release 1993
Genre Computers
ISBN 9780830643752

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A hands-on introduction to programming with Visual Basic for DOS, including a disk containing all the program code covered. This book takes a painless approach that first-time users will find reassuring--a quick-start, step-by-step tutorial on object-oriented programming; dozens of easy-to-follow sample programs; helpful icons highlighting special tips and warnings; and a rich supply of screen images.

Microsoft System Center - Network Virtualization and Cloud Computing

Microsoft System Center - Network Virtualization and Cloud Computing
Title Microsoft System Center - Network Virtualization and Cloud Computing PDF eBook
Author Mitch Tulloch
Publisher Pearson Education
Pages 94
Release 2014-03-07
Genre Computers
ISBN 0735683069

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Part of a series of specialized guides on System Center - this book delivers a focused overview of network virtualization capabilities and cloud computing scenarios. Series editor Mitch Tulloch and a team of System Center experts provide concise technical guidance as they step you through key technical scenarios and considerations.

Basic Computer Games

Basic Computer Games
Title Basic Computer Games PDF eBook
Author David H. Ahl
Publisher
Pages 185
Release 1981
Genre BASIC (Computer program language)
ISBN

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Endless Loop

Endless Loop
Title Endless Loop PDF eBook
Author Mark Jones Lorenzo
Publisher
Pages 190
Release 2017-08-22
Genre
ISBN 9781974277070

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"Endless Loop" chronicles the complete history of the BASIC programming language--from its humble beginnings at Dartmouth College, to its widespread adoption and dominance in education, to its decline and subsequent modern rebirth.In the early morning hours of May 1, 1964, Dartmouth College birthed fraternal twins: BASIC, the Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code programming language, and, simultaneously, the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System (DTSS). It hadn't been an easy birth, and the gestation period was likewise difficult. BASIC was primarily the idea of one man, mathematics professor John Kemeny, a brilliant Hungarian mathematician who had once been an assistant to Albert Einstein, while the DTSS satisfied the vision of another, mathematics and statistics professor Thomas Kurtz, who had brought a democratizing spirit to Dartmouth's campus in the form of free computing for all.BASIC and DTSS caught on at Dartmouth quickly, with a vast majority of undergraduates (and faculty) making use of the computer system via teletypewriters only several years after its inception. But by the early 1970s, with the personal computer revolution fast approaching, Kemeny and Kurtz began to lose control over BASIC as it achieved widespread popularity outside of Dartmouth. The language was being adapted to run on a wide variety of computers, some much too short of memory to contain the full set of Dartmouth BASIC features. Most notably, Microsoft built its business on the back of ROM-based BASIC interpreters for a variety of microcomputers. Although the language was ubiquitous in schools by the early 1980s, it came under attack by such notables as computer scientist Edsger W. Dijkstra for its lack of structure as well as by Kemeny and Kurtz themselves, who viewed non-Dartmouth "Street BASIC" as blasphemous and saw it as their mission to right the ship through language standardization and the release of True BASIC. But by then it was too late: the era of BASIC's global dominance was over.In "Endless Loop," author Mark Jones Lorenzo documents the history and development of Dartmouth BASIC, True BASIC, Tiny BASIC, Microsoft BASIC--including Altair BASIC, Applesoft BASIC, Color BASIC, Commodore BASIC, TRS-80 Level II BASIC, TI BASIC, IBM BASICA/GW-BASIC, QuickBASIC/QBASIC, Visual Basic, and Small Basic--as well as 9845 BASIC, Atari BASIC, BBC BASIC, CBASIC, Locomotive BASIC, MacBASIC, QB64, Simons' BASIC, Sinclair BASIC, SuperBASIC, and Turbo Basic/PowerBASIC, among a number of other implementations.The ascendance of BASIC paralleled the emergence of the personal computer, so the story of BASIC is first and foremost a story--actually, many interlocking stories--about computers. But it is also a tale of talented people who built a language out of a set of primal ingredients: sweat, creativity, rivalry, jealousy, cooperation, and plain hard work, and then set the language loose in a world filled with unintended consequences. How those unintended consequences played out, leading to the demise of the most popular computer language the world has ever known, is the focus of "Endless Loop."