Palm Programming in Basic.

Jon Kilburn

ISBN 10: 1893115496 / ISBN 13: 9781893115491

Published by Springer Verlag, 2002

About this Item

Gebraucht - Gut Zustand: Gut, XV, 388 pp. About this book: Palm Programming in Basic is designed as a comprehensive reference for professional programmers to help get them up to speed on AppForge, NS Basic, and CASL. Jon Kilburn is President of an Internet Wireless Applications Development firm and has developed dozens of applications for the Palm OS and Windows CE platforms. Kilburn is also the editor of Pinnacle Publishing s PDA Developer newsletter and the senior chair for the PDA DevCon developer conference. As such, Kilburn is uniquely poised to teach developers the effective use of these languages. Kilburn explains to readers how to structure a program for hand held development, how to develop the conduit to pass information from the PC desktop to the Palm device, and also reviews the conduit tools on the market and available to developers. A final section of the book provides a guide to developing Web Clipping applications, some Palm utilities every programmer could use and a small appendix for performing data compression. Palm Programming in Basic provides a foundation upon which programmers can begin to develop applications for the Palm OS with very little knowledge of the underlying OS. Written for computer programmers, wireless developers.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Palm Programming in Basic.
• Publisher: Springer Verlag
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1893115496
• ISBN 13: 9781893115491
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: Gut

About this title

Synopsis

Palm Programming in Basic provides a foundation upon which programmers can develop applications for the Palm OS with very little knowledge of the OS itself. It is a comprehensive reference that gets professional programmers up to speed on AppForge, NS Basic, and CASL. The author, Jon Kilburn, shares his vast experience as a developer of dozens of applications for Palm OS in presenting the Palm programming strategies contained in this book.

Kilburn clearly explains how to structure programs for Palm devices and how to develop conduits for passing information between PC desktops and Palm devices, and reviews the conduit tools available to developers. Palm Programming in Basic also includes a guide to developing Web Clipping applications, an overview of Palm utilities that all programmers can use, and an appendix on performing data compression.

About the Author

Jon Kilburn graduated from Pennsylvania State University and has been actively involved in the programming community since 1988. He has written articles and taught seminars all over the world and is editor of Pinnacle's PDA Developer newsletter. Jon is president of Vivid Software, a Texas-based consulting firm that specializes in creating Internet solutions that use Visual Basic and SQL Server.