Re: help location a BASIC programming manual textbook

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In article <JLedne6ecL4bA_PbnZ2dnUVZ_r-onZ2d@comcast.com>, "William
Garber" <willy46pa@garberstreet.com> wrote:
> Here is an interesting BASIC reference. It is
> mostly math oriented, but it'll get you started.
> 
> https://www.garberstreet.com/Apple2/Docs/BASIC_Oct64.pdf


Thanks Bill. Much appreciated.

Although the reason I am looking to find that specific textbook I
mentioned is not really to learn BASIC from (I know BASIC quite
well....well, I USED to know it quite well, heh heh), but rather buy the
textbook I mentioned to add to my personal collection, and to reference
from time to time. It's more nostalgia, than anything else I suppose.

Heck, I still have my Computer Science 105 and Computer Science 205 three
ring binder notebooks in full from 1987 and 1988 respectively. Thanks to
that aforementioned school textbook I "borrowed" from the school for one
summer, I came out of those courses with near perfect marks. Nothing like
teaching oneself ahead of time to gain the knowledge one would otherwise
learn later on. Heh heh.

Plus I ended CS 205 with one heck of good project....a typing tutor
program (written in "top down structured" BASIC) which ran on a TRS-80
Model III and Model 4, complete with a manual I published myself using
CoCo Draw (bitmap graphics program listed in The RAINBOW Magazine, which I
typed in) and the commercially available at the time Telewriter 64 word
processor (using a Tandy CoCo 3 and  a Tandy DMP-105 dot matrix printer).

But I do remember writing a number of BASIC programs first on the Apple
//e at school, and then converting those manually over to my Commodore
VIC-20 and Tandy CoCo 3 later on, and sometimes onto the school's TRS-80
Model III computers. When I felt really ambitious, I would sometimes type
in BASIC programs from memory (my brain), onto department/computer store
Commodore 64's and Atari 8 bitters, while other people impatiently stood
in line to get their chance at playing around with the store's display
computers.

Ah the memories of the 1980's, when I was still a teenager with no real worries.