Illustrating BASIC

This book presents a popular and widely available language called BASIC and explains how to write simple programs in it.

Donald G. Alcock (Author)

9780521217040, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 1 January 1977

148 pages
20 x 13.8 x 1.7 cm, 0.215 kg

'Donald Alcock has written a book which should become a classic.' Personal Computer World

To make a computer do a calculation, however simple, you must describe every step of that calculation in a language the computer can understand: this description is called a program. This book presents a popular and widely available language called BASIC and explains how to write simple programs in it.

Preface
1. Components of the language
2. Input and output, expressions and functions
3. Control
4. Arrays
5. Matrices
6. Complete example programs
7. Commands and signing on
8. Files of data
9. Syntax
Index.

Subject Areas: Programming & scripting languages: general [UMX]