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From: brs@cci632.cci.com (Brian Scherer)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Intro BASIC book recommendation?
Message-ID: <1991May13.152503.21703@cci632.cci.com>
Date: 13 May 91 15:25:03 GMT
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In article <1991May10.210857.19675@news.larc.nasa.gov> kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov ( Scott Dorsey) writes:
>In article <1991May10.194550.21655@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> kkorb@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Kevin Korb) writes:
>>
>>Question: what is the best book you know of for neophytes who want
>>to learn how to program by fooling around with GW-BASIC on their PCs?
>>Why is it a good book?
>
>"Oh! Pascal" by Cooper and Clancy.  Among other reasons, it a good book
>because it will tell them that fooling around with GW-BASIC on their PC
>isn't a good way to learn to program.
>--scott

Yes, I agree about GW-BASIC, but microsoft has a very good product 
in their QuickBasic and their professional Development system. You
can write some very good structured programs in tthis variation
of basic. Yes, before anyone flames me, you can write shitty code
in any language. You have to learn how to design and code
properly.

Brian Scherer