Absolute beginner's guide to QBasic
by Greg M. Perry · first published 1993
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I ate QBasic for breakfast for a couple years. Rewrote SNAKE.BAS with SCREEN 13 graphics. Wrote a slot machine program based on the one in "Absolute Beginner's Guide to QBasic" (IIRC - Google is no help, but I remember it had a neon green cover with a safari adventure guy). Rewrote a loan amortization program that my dad had originally written in Wang BASIC (and even then he…
on “For what are the Windows A:\ and B:\ drives used?” ↗Anyone remember the book "Absolute Beginner's Guide to QBASIC"? https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/absolute-beginners-guide-to-qb... Like most people, I also learned how to program in BASIC from a mustachioed machete-wielding British gentleman whilst on safari.
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