NS Basic Programming for Palm OS [Paperback]

Michael J. Verive (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2006

Palm OS powered devices have been a phenomenal success, with millions being sold each year. NS Basic for Palm is a development tool that lets people who use the world's most popular programming language easily create applications for these devices. It is one of the most popular development tools for the Palm Platform, being used to create applications for business large and small, education, government, as well as personal users who want to create a special application or game.

NS Basic Programming for Palm OS provides a complete guide to developing applications for the Palm Computing platform using Basic. The book shows beginning to intermediate programmers how to design and build a Palm application from the ground up. Palm objects, forms and databases are all explained in detail. User Interface issues are discussed, as well as sharing information with the desktop.

If you have never worked with forms and objects before, or if you come from an older version of Basic, NS Basic Programming for Palm OS will teach you about these powerful concepts and how to use them easily and effectively. Programmers coming from other languages will also find this book makes the transition easy.

Some of the major topics covered are
¥ Basic language features
¥ Projects, forms, objects and menus
¥ Screen Graphics
¥ Time, Date, String and numeric functions
¥ Database management
¥ Extra topics, such as Sorting, Encryption, User Interface and Soundex

NS Basic Programming for Palm OS includes full source code for all samples in the book, plus extras.

NS Basic Programming for Palm OS promises to be an indispensable asset for those learning and using NS Basic for Palm to produce effective, real world applications.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Michael Verive, MD is a former scientist, currently practicing as a Pediatric Critical Care physician. He's programmed computers of every shape and size since the 70's, in 24 programming languages.. He finds the Palm devices to be indispensable in medicine as well as routine daily life, and decided to master their programming, recycling thousands of lines of code from prior projects.

Product Details

• Paperback: 326 pages
• Publisher: Eastwood Group; 3rd edition (November 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0969584466
• ISBN-13: 978-0969584469
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,369,856 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great, in-depth info on NSBasic., May 2, 2002

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Eston Bond ([e-mail]) (Ann Arbor, MI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: NS Basic Programming for Palm OS (Paperback)

As a developer for Palm OS devices, I have read just about every book out there on development for the Palm OS platform, I'd recommend this book to anyone just starting out with Palm OS development or experienced developers with VB/C++ experience. From the simple dbOpen() command to advanced techniques, this book will get you through it all. It's also comprehensive; you don't have to know anything about the topic you want to study to learn it quickly and easily. It is no wonder it's approved by NSBasic Corporation. Wonderful and five stars to the author.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding Reference for the NSBasic/Palm developer, July 1, 2002

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A Man from Seattle "Dave" (Bonney Lake, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: NS Basic Programming for Palm OS (Paperback)

Dr. Verive's efforts in NSBasic Programming for Palm OS are well deserved of praise. The biggest challenges a technical author has is finding the right audience to write to and then maintaining the interest of that audience. Dr. Verive has done probably the *most* difficult thing a technical author can do: He has written a book for *all* levels of programmer *and* has written it to keep the interest of the reader, regardless of their technical level.

The book is very well organized so that the experienced programmer can quickly learn the features they need to be proficient in NSBasic/Palm. However the book starts by *also* laying down an excellent foundation for the new programmer. Subjects include programming techniques, and instruction on structured programming.

The accompanying CD is a gold mine with lots of demo code and 'template' applications that you can use as the foundation for your own work.

If you're new to NSBasic programming or just new to programming, get this book, you'll have it sitting at all times right next to your NSBasic Language Reference. The combination of the two books you will find invaluable.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not a bad book, March 13, 2003

By 

Thad Lamphier "marmotjr" (Euclid, Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: NS Basic Programming for Palm OS (Paperback)

It's worth the asking price. Verive presents the material in a friendly, conversational way. Almost too conversational sometimes, doubling back and changing previous statements. The code provided doesn't exactly match the disc, but you are able to get his intent easily enough. I am a rookie programmer and I ended up forking over the [money] for the full version of NSBasic due to Verive's enthusiasm towards the program. I was able to make a couple semi-complex apps within a few hours of reading the book. Within a couple days I was making some good stuff, using only this book.
This book is a neccesity if you own NSBAsic because it shows how to use the commands and functions not clearly explained in the manual.