Publisher's Synopsis
This introductory book on BASIC applications programming assumes the reader has no previous knowledge of computing and presents the subject using structured programming techniques. The student is led from simple BASIC routines through to the edge of advanced file handling. Each chapter concludes with summary points and self-test questions and the reader's knowledge is tested by means of worksheets and test programs. The final chapter introduces the concept of a program specification and presents the reader with a project scenario related to a commercial situation. In the course of working through modules from the specification, points on structure presented throughout the book are consolidated and, on completion, the student should be able to write commercial software using indexed sequential random file access techniques.;This book is based on the BASIC applications programming course taught by the author at Kalamazoo Training Consultants. Although intended to provide instruction for trainee commercial programmers in MSBASIC, with reference made to Unix and Xenix, the book was written using GWBASIC with the PC, XT, AT user in mind. The work does not consider colour, sound or graphics, but concentrates on the principles required to produce structured applications software that is written with clarity and style.
