Brian Reffin Smith
Autor de Computers (Computers Series)
Sobre El Autor
Obras de Brian Reffin Smith
Introduction to Computer Programming 3 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
Miembros
Reseñas
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 12
- Miembros
- 69
- Popularidad
- #250,752
- Valoración
- 3.6
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 22
- Idiomas
- 2
The book has a number of programs in it and they can be pretty complex. There is a database program, a couple graphics program (including one for drawing graphs), two sorting programs, and a program which is designed to help you have a conversation with the computer. However, unlike a lot of the other books at the time that had listings of programs, this book deconstructs each of the programs so that you can understand what is happening. The book also suggests that you experiment with the programs by changing various lines around to see what happens.
I particularly like the database program and I am tempted to experiment with it to see if I can create my own specific database, that being a small database of pubs where you can type in a name and it lists all of the pubs with that name, or a suburb and it lists all of the suburbs. While I am not a computer programmer I suspect that I can easily modify the program for my own purposes.
I also know that this is a very old version of BASIC for computers that did not have a GUI (Graphical User Interface such as windows) or even DOS based machines (which did not enable you to use BASIC, however I remember when I was away with my Dad helping his friend with his PhD project I was still able to write programs in BASIC). I still remember that time, spending two weeks up on a sheep station in Central Australia. I remember that every night we would have lamb (because it was a sheep station) and despite the fact that it was full of university students, they were not smart enough to put the television antenna on the nearby hill (something which I, as a 12 year old, suggested that they do, though I don't think they ever got around to doing it).… (más)