BASIC IN PRACTICE Jean-Pierre Lamoitier

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BASIC IN PRACTICE Jean-Pierre Lamoitier RÉS Edition Pages: 290 Dimensions: 215x150 mm. Binding: Hardcover Weight: 459 g INI8000 Like-new copy PRICE: 8.00 POSTAGE INCLUDED via Standard Mail/Editorial Mail, valid while this service remains available to private individuals. Registered Mail incurs an additional fee according to current rates PREFACE The BASIC programming language is currently experiencing significant growth, proportional to the emergence of personal or professional microcomputers. Consequently, it is the most widely disseminated language in this field, being extensively used in management, data collection, scientific calculations, graphical applications, and process control. Programming techniques are learned primarily through practice. This book presents a comprehensive collection of concrete, fully worked-out exercises that guide the reader step-by-step through problem statements, analysis, flowcharts with comments, programs, and execution examples. We hope that, after completing a sufficient number of these exercises and reading their explanations, you will have effectively learned BASIC “by doing.” Each proposed exercise is treated comprehensively: problem statement analysis flowchart with comments sample program and execution example This method enables readers to assess their progress at each stage of study and learn how to analyze a problem. It also demonstrates how to decompose a problem into simpler “sub-problems.” Thus, each difficulty can be addressed separately, allowing construction of a modular, readable, and easily adaptable program for more ambitious real-world applications. These “sub-problems” may subsequently serve as building blocks for developing more complex programs. This book constitutes a necessary complement to achieving solid mastery of the language. An appendix concisely presents the main BASIC instructions. To avoid tying the programs to any specific system, the author has employed, in most cases, a widely used BASIC (the Microsoft MBASIC subset). Several alternative versions of programs are also provided, aiming to illustrate how to work around limitations present in certain BASIC implementations.