Introduction to Basic: A Structured Approach

By Chris R. Siragusa

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871502895
• ISBN13: 9780871502896
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Prindle Weber & Schmidt
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The death knell of spaghetti code

This book was written after spaghetti code programming was already common, not only with basic but also with languages you might not expect to have spaghetti code, such as COBOL. However, programmers using BASIC were notorious for creating spaghetti code because the language was much closer to FORTRAN, and with the addition of "peek" and "poke," you could even do some assembly. This book was created long before the idea of object-oriented programming. So it was groundbreaking for its time. One entry point, one exit point, and clear logic for the next programmer to follow. I keep this book on my shelf to remind me of days gone by. Another good book from that era of the “trash 80” is "Micro Computer Games."