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Teach Yourself Qbasic in 21 Days

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This book, is great for even the most inexperianced programmers. Even with my background of other "basic" programming languages, this book put my knowledge over the top. My group, ordered this book, for an upcomming contest, and from the information, we will have the advantedge. I reccomend this book to beginers and experts alike. This one is a must!

I bought this book a little after it came out, and as I was reasding it I had the urge to program a text based RPG. I made the RPG in under 6 days. I got on the internet and sold the RPG and made a lot of money. It is so intouch. It gets straight to the point. Thanks Namir Clement Shammas. You gave me mt 15 min. of fame.

I recently bought this book, and it is a big help! I would recommend this to an intermediate programmer, although it could be suitable for some beginners. It deals with the basics, strings, variables, data, graphics, and sound. If you're a QBasic programmer, you should probably buy it.

This book is perfect for people who have a basic understanding and want to know more about QBasic. Also covers some advanced topics.

I could not put it down, it is a masterpiece of computer knowledge. I loved it so much, I actually finished in 20 days!! -L. Berzai

As a teacher, you would not present material in the order that this book does. For example, math operators are not introduced until pg 83 and yet there are numerous examples in the previous pages that use the math operators. In another beginning programming example, the author uses a dice throwing program (p49)to illustrate how variables are used and created. Unfortunately, the INT and RND commands that he uses in the program are not explained until pages 477 and 471, respectively!! Unless you are already a QBASIC programmer you would not understand many of the illustrations in this book, and I think that the purpose of the book is to teach the user QBASIC programming from scratch. This book is obviously written by someone who has never taught before, or is a lousy teacher. I don't recommend this book to anyone who would like to learn QBASIC. I doubt that I will purchase any of the "SAMS Teach Yourself..." books in the future because I would be wary that they are not laid out logically.