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This is awesome, looks like a great book. Some really good ideas for games, which I could use to illustrate my own language. It would be fun to add graphics o
by sswam 16y ago
This is awesome, looks like a great book. Some really good ideas for games, which I could use to illustrate my own language. It would be fun to add graphics or sound functions to some of these games, while keeping the code simple.
The first version of this book was published in 1973, and Microsoft has published a new version this year (2010)! I prefer the simpler style of BASIC used in the originals.
- sswam 16y agoI do have some similar books targetting BBC Basic, with graphics and sound, etc., from the 80s. It's a pity that computing books these days are much more dull! because the languages are so much harder to use. I'm very interested to correct this problem by making good language/s and writing some books! a fun thing to do.
- sswam 16y agoI was going to buy the microsoft version, but BASIC is not Basic without PRINT! (They use TextWindow.WriteLine() or some nonsense. Who would type that 500 times to write a game?) And their substitute for DATA is hideous. Compare: http://computerscienceforkids.com/DavidAhlsSmallBasicComputerGamesSampleChapter.aspx http://computerscienceforkids.com/DavidAhlsSmallBasicCompute... http://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/showpage.php?page=49 http://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/showpage.php?page=49 http://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/showpage.php?page=46 http://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/showpage.php?page=46