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From: srm@nsc.UUCP (Richard Mateosian)
Newsgroups: net.books,net.wanted
Subject: Re: Computer Book suggestions?
Message-ID: <1917@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-Nov-84 14:02:18 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 29 14:02:18 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 30-Nov-84 07:15:07 EST
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Organization: National Semiconductor, Sunnyvale
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Summary: 

In article <337@ubu.UUCP> sahunt@ubu.UUCP (Stephen Hunt) writes:

>As I see it the market needs a good introduction to programming with the
>emphasis on how to approach problems in a sensible way.
>Unfortunately, we seem
>to be stuck with Basic as a beginner's language, simply because all
>the home micros are supplied with it as standard; this situation doesn't
>need to be made worse by books stressing the wrong aspects of programming.

May I modestly suggest "Inside BASIC Games" by Richard Mateosian 
(Sybex, 1981).  This book is not about games but about how to program
systematically in BASIC.  Its principal technique is to write each
program in a precise pseudocode called Free BASIC and then to translate
by hand into BASIC. Progressively more difficult programs are attacked
in this way, ending with several that are quite sophisticated.
-- 
Richard Mateosian
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