On Jan 12, 2020, at 9:10 AM, r cs <secri...@gmail.com> wrote: > Forgive me if these suggestions have already been put forward, but if you're > going to be studying BASIC you might find "Advanced BASIC" by James S. Coan > useful. It is available electronically in multiple formats from the Internet > Archive at https://archive.org/details/Advanced_BASIC_1977_Hayden_Book_Company > > Although I never read it, the same author also wrote "BASIC BASIC", which > presumably is its prequel, and the second edition of that is also available > from the same source at > https://archive.org/details/Basic_BASIC_2nd_Edition_1978_Hayden_Book_Company
Basic BASIC and Advanced BASIC appear to be for two different audiences. The former is for people who don’t know programming, and want to learn BASIC. The latter is for people who do know programming, and want to learn BASIC quickly. Both books cover the same topics, but with different assumptions. They are especially useful for learning how to program statistics in BASIC. Also, one tidbit: this was apparently before people standardized on using the o with a slash to mean zeroes; Coan uses slashed o (in Basic BASIC, at least) to mean the letter, not the number. (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2674320646) Jerry Stratton http://www.astoundingscripts.com/ The word “signal-box” is unpoetical. But the thing signal-box is not unpoetical; it is a place where men, in an agony of vigilance, light blood-red and sea-green fires to keep other men from death. — G.K. Chesterton (Heretics)
