True BASIC by Problem Solving

Designed for people with no programming experience, this book shows how to use true BASIC (Version 2.0) to solve problems and tap its potential as a serious scientific problem-solving language of the first degree. It is based on many years of teaching programming to the first year university students with no computing experience and is ideally suited as a self-instructional guide.;The author has included many interesting, real-world problems with examples taken from science, engineering, business, and biology. A large number of exercises, most of which have solutions provided, illuminate True BASIC's problem-solving potential and develop the user's programming skill. Such applications as simulation, modelling, and numerical methods are also introduced.;True BASIC is one of the best high level languages for beginners. It retains all the simplicity of the earliest versions of BASIC and has superb machine-independent graphics, but has modern control structures (DO-WHILE, Block IF, etc.), named subroutines with arguments and local variables, modules, pictures, and optional line numbers.