Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!ubc-cs!manis From: manis@cs.ubc.ca (Vincent Manis) Newsgroups: comp.edu Subject: Re: Intro BASIC book recommendation? Message-ID: <1991May23.021908.19293@cs.ubc.ca> Date: 23 May 91 02:19:08 GMT References: <1991May10.194550.21655@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: usenet@cs.ubc.ca (Usenet News) Organization: Institute for Pure and Applied Eschatology Lines: 18 In article <1991May10.194550.21655@bronze.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? Why is this a good strategy? Would it not be better to have a neophyte of this sort learn something useful, such as an interesting data base or similar sort of program? What about Hypercard or Toolbook or something similar? Learning about computers by futzing around with GW-Basic strikes me as being analogous to learning about electricity by sticking paperclips into electric outlets. -- \ Vincent Manis "There is no law that vulgarity and \ Department of Computer Science literary excellence cannot coexist." /\ University of British Columbia -- A. Trevor Hodge / \ Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1W5 (604) 228-2394