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True BASIC by Problem Solving

This book is one of the first to explore the problem-solving potential of True BASIC (version 2.0), an entirely newly structured version of BASIC. True BASIC retains all the simplicity of the earliest versions of BASIC and has superb machine-independent graphics, making it arguably the best high-level language for beginners. On the other hand, it has features which will be quite unrecognizable to old-time BASIC addicts: modern control structures, named subroutines with arguments and local variables, modules, pictures (graphics subroutines) and so on. These features enable it to take its place as a serous scientific problem-solving language of the first degree. The approach taken in this book is on developed over many years of teaching programming to first-year university students with no computing experience. It can therefore be used as a "teach yourself" guide by anyone wishing to learn True BASIC. The computer is presented as a tool for solving interesting, real-world problems. These are illustrated by examples from many areas, as wide apart as business and biology, but particularly from science and engineering. By Dr. Brian D. Hahn, Department of Applied Mathematics, University

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