I need a guide for learning BASIC

Post by **CronoTriggerfan** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 9:02 pm

Oh man, should you have posted this thread a little earlier, I coulda helped! I used to have about 2 or 3 programming tutorial books on just about every major language out there, and most of them were really good! Unfortunately, I donated them to my school a couple months ago.

My personal recommendation is this book. Even though it says "Game Programming" in the title, it should instead be called, "C++ from the ground up, with a few blurbs about how what you learn can be applied in games". Makes the reading a bit more interesting, and the book itself is, in my opinion, quite solid. Good luck!

CTFan

Post by **Skyone** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 9:46 pm

CronoTriggerfan wrote:My personal recommendation is this book....

I have that book and this one. That C++ book is pretty good, but the Game Programming All-in-one book revolves around C, Allegro (library) and Dev-Cpp, all of three which I don't honestly recommend.

Get Visual Studio 6 (or 2005) for programming in C++.

Master of Portables · Thu Aug 09, 2007 10:06 pm

The book CTFan suggested looks good, (starts saving up money). and Skyone, doesn't Visual Studio 6 cost money? Us portablizers don't have that much money to spend...

Post by **Skyone** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 10:12 pm

Master of Portables wrote:and Skyone, doesn't Visual Studio 6 cost money? Us portablizers don't have that much money to spend...

*bleak look*

Master of Portables · Thu Aug 09, 2007 10:29 pm

ugh, I don't know how to respond to that one...

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*looks up bleak at dictinary.com*

...oh

ZN13 · Post by **ZN13** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 10:30 pm

I have that book too! Great book.

But, get VC++ Express, it's free.
But it's also annoying that you can only have one express edition.

Master of Portables · Thu Aug 09, 2007 10:32 pm

ZN13 wrote:I have that book too! Great book.

But, get VC++ Express, it's free.
But it's also annoying that you can only have one express edition.

VC++ express sucks! seriously I can run a program on Dev C++, but the said program comes up with about 50+ errors when I try to compile it in VC...

bacteria · Post by **bacteria** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 8:31 am

I used to use QBasic years ago; but as with other forms of Basic, it needs to run in either MS DOS, DR DOS or Windows 3.xx .

I think I may still have QBasic somewhere if you need it; it isn't of any use to man or beast unless you have the above operating systems though! Later versions of Windows (95 upwards) don't run in a DOS environment so can't run it. I learnt programming in DOS back in 1983 while I was at college, and Assembly Language. (those were the days!).