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« Thread started on: Apr 16th, 2013, 11:18am »
Hi,

I discover this forum when I look for information of Liberty Basic. Since the author of LB Booster is also the author of BBC Basic for Windows, I ask this question here.

Every important modern BASIC dialect has at least one book. For example,

Blitzmax:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Games-Programming-Absolute-Beginner-Blitzmax/dp/0955377102
PureBasic:
http://www.lulu.com/shop/john-logsdon-and-derlidio-siqueira/programming-2d-scrolling-games/paperback/product-20502255.html
JustBasic:
http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Absolute-Beginner-Experience-Technology/dp/1598633740/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1366109707&sr=1-1&keywords=justbasic
Liberty Basic:
http://www.lulu.com/shop/carl-gundel/beginning-programming-with-liberty-basic/paperback/product-6272251.html
QB64:
http://www.amazon.com/Video-Game-Programming-Jonathan-Harbour/dp/1435461169/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1366109979&sr=1-1&keywords=qb64

Will there be a plan for a complete book for BBC Basic? Actually, BBC Basic is more powerful than Liberty Basic and JustBasic. These two langauges also have good books. I really hope that BBC Basic also has a good book because:

1. Programming learners can learn BBC Basic easily with a good book.

2. A good book can actually promote a programming language.

3. If this book is written by the author of BBC Basic, the sale of this book will generate a large sum of income to help further develop BBC Basic.

Therefore, I really hope that BBC Basic's author will consider my suggestion. Thanks a lot.!!!!
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xx Re: (off topic)Will there be book for BBC Basic?
« Reply #1 on: Apr 16th, 2013, 1:01pm »
on Apr 16th, 2013, 11:18am, Guest-BASIC learner wrote:
Therefore, I really hope that BBC Basic's author will consider my suggestion.

There are (or were) lots of books on BBC BASIC, but they are nearly all from the BBC Microcomputer era (i.e. about 30 years ago) and are therefore out of date and potentially misleading when applied to a modern version of the language such as BBC BASIC for Windows. They are probably out of print too!

If it helps at all, there is a PDF version (i.e. formatted for printing) of the main BB4W manual, and also a PDF version of the Beginners' Tutorial:

http://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcwin/manual/bbcwin.pdf
http://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcwin/tutorial/bbctutor.pdf

You could ask your local print shop to print and bind these into book format.

Some time ago I asked on the BB4W support group whether there would be any interest in a hardcopy version of the manual (e.g. published by Lulu) but hardly anybody was prepared to pay the relatively high price.

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« Reply #2 on: Apr 19th, 2013, 10:09pm »
Hello, I cannot totally agree with you but I want to reply to you in the BBC BASIC's forum in the future.

By the way, the following forum is a BASIC programming languages forum. Sometimes I like to visit that forum. In fact, I notice that some BASIC dialects' authors also like to discuss in that forum.
http://forum.basicprogramming.org/index.php

I also advertised LB Booster in that forum a few days ago:
http://forum.basicprogramming.org/index.php/topic,2862.0.html
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« Reply #3 on: Apr 20th, 2013, 09:13am »
on Apr 19th, 2013, 10:09pm, Guest-BASIC learner wrote:
I also advertised LB Booster in that forum a few days ago

Thanks. I have responded there to a couple of points made by others.

It is difficult to get LBB 'known' because some of the LB folks try very hard to stop people finding out about it!

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