Introduction to Basic Programming: A Structured Approach

By Peter B. Worland

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395327504
• ISBN13: 9780395327500
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin School
• Length: 436 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The death knell of spaghetti code

This book was produced after spaghetti code programming was well underway, not only with basic but also with languages you would never expect to be tangled in spaghetti code, such as COBOL. However, people programming in BASIC were notorious for creating spaghetti code, as the language was much closer to FORTRAN, and with the addition of "peek" and "poke," you could 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 a logical flow that the next programmer could easily follow. I keep this book on my shelf to remind me of days gone by. Another good book from that era of trash 80 is "Micro Computer Games."