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Intended for those who have been introduced to the BASIC Language and want to go further with the language. Also intended for those who have already learned another language (such as FORTAN or COBOL) and need only a brief introduction to what is for them a second or third programming language.
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Advanced Basic
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Hayden (edition 1988 printing), 1977
ISBN 10: 0810458551
ISBN 13: 9780810458550
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Advanced BASIC : Applications and Problems
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Advanced BASIC: Applications and Problems
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Hayden Book Co Inc.,U.S., 1976
ISBN 10: 0810458551
ISBN 13: 9780810458550
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Advanced Basic - Applications and Problems
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Paperback. Condition: Good. Advanced BASIC ? Applications and Problems (1977) by James S. Coan Publisher: Hayden ISBN: 0810458551 Condition: Good There was a brief and wonderful period in computing history when owning a computer did not automatically mean knowing how to use one. In fact, the two concepts were often separated by several hundred pages of dense technical manuals and a considerable amount of trial and error. Advanced BASIC ? Applications and Problems arrives from 1977, when computers were becoming increasingly accessible, but still retained the ability to make perfectly intelligent adults question their life choices. Written by James S. Coan, this volume assumes that readers have already mastered the basics of BASIC and are now ready to venture into more ambitious territory. The title alone carries a certain confidence. Not merely BASIC. Not even intermediate BASIC. This is Advanced BASIC, where programmes become larger, problems become more complicated and typing a single incorrect character can still bring everything to a grinding halt. Within these pages lie practical applications, programming challenges and problem-solving techniques designed to transform enthusiastic beginners into competent programmers. Readers are encouraged to wrestle with logic, algorithms and code while discovering that computers are astonishingly literal machines. If you accidentally instruct one to do something ridiculous, it will obediently comply. What makes the book particularly fascinating today is the era in which it was written. This was a time when programming was often learned from books rather than websites. There were no online forums, no video tutorials and no helpful search engines waiting to explain why your programme had just crashed. If your code failed, your primary debugging tools were patience, determination and a growing suspicion that line 240 was plotting against you. The BASIC language itself occupies a special place in computing history. For millions of people it served as the gateway into programming, introducing concepts that would eventually underpin careers in software development, engineering and technology. Countless future professionals began their journey by typing pages of BASIC code from books remarkably similar to this one, usually only to discover that a single missing bracket had ruined everything. Our copy remains in Good condition , having survived nearly half a century of technological progress. It has endured the arrival of personal computers, graphical interfaces, the internet, smartphones, cloud computing and artificial intelligence, all while calmly explaining techniques intended for machines whose processing power would now struggle to operate a digital toaster. Collectors of computing history will appreciate its authentic period charm. Programmers may enjoy seeing how complex problems were approached in the formative years of personal computing. Historians of technology will find a fascinating snapshot of an era when the future of computing was still being invented one line of code at a time. Reading it today is rather like consulting a navigation manual from the age of sail. The methods remain ingenious, the knowledge remains genuine and the achievements remain impressive, even if modern technology has moved on dramatically. The underlying principles still matter. Only the machines have changed. A wonderfully nostalgic relic from the heroic age of programming, when memory was measured in kilobytes, storage was a luxury, and "advanced computing" could be accomplished with a language whose most famous command was simply telling the computer to print "HELLO". Seller Inventory # 6592
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