So You Want to Learn to Program? – Programming With BASIC-256

Anybody can learn how to program a computer with this free pdf book, “So You Want to Learn to Program? – Programming With BASIC-256”, by James Reneau. It is suitable for anybody 10+ who wants to learn to program and is ready to experiment.

Book Description

This book creates a hands-on introduction of computer programming for Middle School and High School students. It has been written without much of the jargon and complexity of many programming books.

It attempts to engage through programming media (sound, color, shapes, and text to speech) and then working in the typical concepts of programming (loops, conditions, variables…) to make animations, games, and fun applications.

Table of Contents

• Meeting BASIC-256 – Say Hello
• Drawing Basic Shapes
• Sound and Music
• Thinking Like a Programmer
• Your Program Asks for Advice
• Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
• Looping and Counting – Do it Again and Again
• Custom Graphics – Creating Your Own Shapes
• Subroutines – Reusing Code
• Mouse Control – Moving Things Around
• Keyboard Control – Using the Keyboard to Do Things
• Images, WAVs, and Sprites
• Arrays – Collections of Information
• Mathematics – More Fun With Numbers
• Working with Strings
• Files – Storing Information For Later
• Stacks, Queues, Lists, and Sorting
• Runtime Error Trapping
• Database Programming
• Connecting with a Network

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