Ok: The Resurrection of GW-BASIC

Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:Ok: The Resurrection Of Gw-BasicISBN13:9781546955153ISBN10:1546955151Author:Lorenzo, Mark Jones (Author)Description:Gw-Basic Isn't Dead Yet A Microsoft Product Of The Early 1980S, Gw-Basic And Its Direct Successors Were Loaded Into More Personal Computers Than Any Other Programming Language In History Gw-Basic Was A Line-Numbered, Unstructured, Loosely Procedural High-Level Programming Environment That Immediately Set You Down In The Thick Of It: Confronted With An Ok Prompt, Cursor Blinking, The Language Interpreter Made No Bones About Its High-Level Expectations Of You Algorithms, Some Just As Complex As Anything Being Coded These Days, Could Be Fashioned In Gw-Basic; Program In The Language Now, And You'll Experience A Particular Type Of Joy That Attends To A Successful Solution Of A New-World Coding Problem That, Samurai-Like, You Are Somehow Able To Slay Using An Old-World Unstructured Language Mark Jones Lorenzo First Wrote About Gw-Basic In Not Ok, Arguing That Reports Of Its Death Were Greatly Exaggerated--And Proving It By Offering A Cookbook Of Engaging And Cutting-Edge Algorithmic Type-In Recipes, Earmarked For Immediate Consumption And Now It's Time For A Second Helping If Not Ok Was The Appetizer, Then Ok Is The Main Course, Containing Delicious Recipes For Even More Complex Programs That Stretch Gw-Basic To Its Absolute Limits While Satiating The Most Discriminating Programmers Inside These Pages You'll Find The Ingredients For Cooking Up Turing Machines, The Game Of Life, Tic-Tac-Toe, The Card Game Baccarat, A Slider Puzzle, An Analog Clock, Permutation And Combination Generators, A Slot Machine, The Tower Of Hanoi, An Outguessing Machine, A Decimal-To-Fraction Converter, A Statistical Bootstrapping Routine, And Several Recursive Algorithms, Among Many Other Programs--Including Playable Versions Of A Handful Of Classic Arcade Games Of A Bygone Era In Addition, Gw-Basic Goes Head-To-Head With An Object-Oriented Programming Language That's More Than Just Another Flavor Of The Month: Java Will The Ragtag Gw-Basic Hold Its Own Against The Unalloyed Goliath-Like Forces Of Modernity? Or Will It Finally Succumb To The Ravages Of Time (And A Leviathan Language), Revealing Itself To Be Well Past Its Expiration Date? The Fate Of Gw-Basic Lies In Your Hands * Gw-Basic Is A Registered Trademark Of The Microsoft Corporation, Which Did Not In Any Way Endorse Or Assist In The Production Of This Product Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:CREATESPACEPublication Date:2017-08-22Weight:0.87 lbsDimensions:0.82'' H x 8'' L x 5'' WNumber of Pages:402Language:English

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