Re: AppleSoft BASIC Tutorials

[Sean McNamara <sean@macassist.com.au>]

In article <YYKdnd9eFcnElHqi4p2dnA@comcast.com>,
 "Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote:

> Let me look through my stuff and see if I don't
> have a couple dupes that I can spare. If no dupes,
> maybe I can scan one in and send you the GIFs, or
> whatever format you like. Should know by Monday
> afternoon the 22nd EST. BTW, would this be mainly
> for the IIe?

Hi Bill,

well, it's going to be on an emulator at the moment - either IIgs or 
//e, whatever I can get running under Mac OS 8.6 for him - if I can get 
both, he'll have both. Given he's just doing BASIC, I'll prolly go with 
the //e for most of his use because it should be (?) easier to emulate 
and therefore hopefully the speed will be a bit better.

Thanks for the offer on the book and scans.

BTW, one of the problems with books is the shipping costs to Aus - often 
as much as the books themselves. Scans are more than adequate if you 
already have them, I don't want people to go to too much trouble for 
this.

Another problem for me is that my son lives about 500km away, and I only 
see him 4 times a year during school holidays. His home situation is 
what might be described as variable, where things get lost or "borrowed" 
by step- and half-siblings and where he changes rooms occasionally, so 
I'm worried about giving him my //e and the books I have for it ("BASIC 
Programming With ProDOS" from Apple and "Applesoft Tool Kit" manual from 
Apple). I will be copying them for his use, but they didn't seem like 
the most interesting introduction to BASIC programming.

He has Better BASIC from Usborne, which looks pretty good, and I've 
found Practise your BASIC from Usborne at our local library. But I feel 
like the more info he has the better, especially given how remote he is.


Regards

Sean

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