The Revolutionary Guide to Qbasic

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Summary: Great Reference Guide!
Review: I enjoyed every topic covered. It opened my eyes a little more on QB. It truly is the next level up from your ordinary QB programming.

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Summary: Best Basic Game Programming Book
Review: The Revolutionary Guide to Qbasic is by far the best book out there for programming games in basic. It is filled with chapters on sound and graphics that nearly every other book on the market neglects to include. I make games in my spare time and until now have been picking apart other games and asking more experienced programmers how to write complex sections of code. Well, no more! This book has it all: 3-D scrolling, tile based gaming, creating music, and more. Why buy another book about how to make a loop or print data to the screen? This book it truly the best way to advance your hobby in Basic programming.

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Summary: The best Qbasic book:
Review: The Revolutionary Guide to Qbasic is the best Qbasic book I've seen. It comes with a very helpful disk of utilities, and it is very up-to-date. It has info on programming the sound card, mouse, and much more. There is even a section about how to make a raycaster game and other 3d projects. I highly recommend it.

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Summary: Authors know QBASIC, but don't know English
Review: This book is entirely unsuitable for beginning programmers, and difficult to read even for experienced programmers. All the information is there, even on advanced topics, but the authors write in mock-Soviet Academese. There is also no reference appendix or any way to quickly look up commands (though QBASIC itself provides that). Here are a couple of sentences from the first paragraph in the book: "Statements must be written according to QBasic syntax rules. Why, for example, is the comment text in the INPUT statement enclosed in quotation marks, and the variable name placed after the comma?" This is gobbly-gook to anyone who doesn't already know alot about programming in general and BASIC in particular. It gets worse from there. Do not buy this book unless you are an experienced BASIC programmer looking for advanced info on QBASIC for DOS audio and graphics programming, and don't want or need any kind of useable quick-reference to the language.

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Summary: THE GREATEST PROGRAMMING BOOK KNOWN TO MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: This is a great book for the experienced programmer. It contains all the stuff I wanted to make my games awesome on Qbasic. I recommend this book to anyone who read THE BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO QBASIC ore something similar. This book come with a floppy disk too, and has great code. If you want to know how to use the mouse or joystick, use a 3D engine, or have 3D graphics, this book is for you! I'm only 12, but anyone who knows advanced math can understand this book (I mostly did!)

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Summary: This the one stop book for QBasic
Review: This is an amazing book. The scientific knowledge of the author(s) flows through all the pages. The logic used is flawless and the examples are crystal clear.

Most books on basic just walk you through the basics (pun intended) but never get to the nitty-gritty of real world programming. The authors have an amazing insight on structured programming and how qbasic works. Reminds me of the mainframe scientists of the past.

I wish the authors would just write a book on VB since the documentation that comes with the program is also very elementary.

Thank you guys.

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Summary: Wonderful
Review: Very, very nice. Forget the petty nitpicking, this is a GREAT book for people serious about using QBasic as a programming language. If it had a true introduction to QBasic for beginners it would be the one-stop-shop for the language. As it is, though, you need to be somewhat familiar in order to appreciate just how good this book is!

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Summary: THE GREATEST PROGRAMMING BOOK KNOWN TO MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: Wow! I never knew how much you could do in QBasic. I learned that text games are just fine and now I specialize in them. Once I learned the PLAY commands, I was brought into the world of music programming. I now write rap and all sorts of music. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to know the best BASIC programming.