The Waite Group's Microsoft QuickBASIC Bible

✍ Scribed by Mitchell Waite, Robert Arnson, Christy Gemmell, Harry Henderson

• Publisher: Microsoft Press
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 965
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Covers: QuickBASIC up to vers. 4.5, GW-BASIC, BASICA, PowerBASIC

We wrote this book with a special approach in mind. The idea is to allow you to access the most general information first, followed by more specific information. For example,if you are just getting started with QuickBASIC, you might want a general overview of the entire language-its advantages over other languages and its limitations, its power and its potential. The Introduction, "A Task-Oriented Overview of QuickBASIC," gives you this information in a style that is both comprehensive and readable.

If you already know a version of BASIC, you probably want to identify those areas of QuickBASIC that are new and different. To this end, you can read the tutorials that introduce each chapter of the book; these sections summarize and discuss the usage of
any commands and keywords that might be new to you.

✦ Table of Contents

KEYWORDS, STATEMENTS,AND FUNCTIONS
Title Page
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Task-Oriented Overview of QuickBASIC
SECTION I - CORE
Chapter 1 Variables and Types
Chapter 2 Flow Control
Chapter 3 Decisions and Operators
Chapter 4 Procedures
Chapter 5 Strings
Chapter 6 Arrays and Data
Chapter 7 Math
Chapter 8 Simple I/O
Chapter 9 Trapping and Errors
Chapter 10 Time (Timing, Date, and Time)
SECTION II - MULTIMEDIA
Chapter 11 Graphics
Chapter 12 Sound
Chapter 13 Light Pen and Joystick
SECTION III - DEVICES
Chapter 14 Keyboard
Chapter 15 Printer
Chapter 16 Communications Port
Chapter 17 Files
SECTION IV - DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 18 DOS and Program Management
Chapter 19 Port and Memory
Chapter 20 Mixed Language
Chapter 21 Metacommands
Chapter 22 Debugging
SECTION V APPENDIXES
Appendix A Microsoft KnowledgeBase
Appendix B CompuServe Files
Appendix C Third-Party Routines
Appendix D QuickBASIC for the Macintosh
Appendix E Statements Specific to OS/2 in Microsoft BASIC Compiler Versions 6.0 and 7.0
Appendix F Error Messages & Error Codes
Appendix G Control Codes
Appendix H ASCII Characters
Index
KEYWORDS, STATEMENTS, AND FUNCTIONS BY CATEGORY