Lon Poole
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Lon Poole has written many books about personal computers, including Macworld Mac OS 8.5 Bible, Your IBM PC, and Apple II User's Guide. A founding editor of Macworld magazine, Lon answers readers' questions every month in his "Quick Tips" column. His books and magazine articles have won several awards, including a Maggie Award, American Society of Business Press Editors award, and a Book Bytes Award.
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What is different about the programs in this book? They were written to be compatible with as many dialects of the BASIC programming language as possible, including: Applesoft BASIC, Atari BASIC, Commodore BASIC, CBASIC, Digital Equipment Corporation's (DEC) BASIC Plus, Radio Shack TRS-80 BASIC, Texas Instruments BASIC, and Wang Laboratories BASIC.
There is a good write-up accompanying each of the programs, along with helpful references, to give readers a solid foundation in the subject matter addressed by each program. There are also practice problems and answers that will push readers beyond understanding toward mastery of programming skills.
The chief weakness of the programs in this book is their narrow focus on number crunching. There are no data files to work with. Therefore, the reader will not gain any experience with file I/O from the examples in this book.… (mehr)