The first of a two-part beginners'BASIC series, Starting Basic lets you in on the ground floor of programming. It spends eight pages just teaching you how to connect Arnold up and produce the characters you want from the keyboard. The book is slow, patient and largely reader-friendly, relying on flow charts to demonstrate program structure. Now, flow charts are all very well for explaining programs in primitive BASICs, but not really the thing for handling a modem, structured dialect like Locomotive BASIC. They are symptomatic of the books's main problem that it fails to come to terms with many of Locomotive BASIC's more important features. For any Amstrad programming primer to completely ignore the WHILE...WEND construction is hard to justify. Continually, the example programs use conditional GOTO loops where WHILE would be much better, both in readability and style. Furthermore and rather oddly - the book teaches assignment to variables using the obsolete keyword LET. If this formed part of some consistent policy, it would merely be a strange way to go about things. It is not, however, for within a few pages the authors start making assignments the normal, LET-less way -without any explanation of the change. If you didn't know that LET was optional to start with, this book would leave you none the wiser. This really is very poor after all, the whole point of buying an Amstrad primer is to be told things specifically about the Amstrad machines. As it is, the program-structuring aspects of the book look positively ancient. What with LETs, GOTOs, and :REM instead of an apostrophe, there is a certain feeling of quaintness to it. The rest of the book is, for the most part, good. The explanations are clear, and the pace shouldn't leave too many people behind. The question is, what is it going to teach you? The first few years of the micro boom produced more than enough GOTO programmers - do we really want a book like this, now that structured BASIC has arrived? AMSTRAD ACTION | ★ AMSTRAD CPC ★ A voir aussi sur CPCrulez , les sujets suivants pourront vous intéresser... |
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Page créée en 533 millisecondes et consultée 1598 foisL'Amstrad CPC est une machine 8 bits à base d'un Z80 à 4MHz. Le premier de la gamme fut le CPC 464 en 1984, équipé d'un lecteur de cassettes intégré il se plaçait en concurrent du Commodore C64 beaucoup plus compliqué à utiliser et plus cher. Ce fut un réel succès et sorti cette même années le CPC 664 équipé d'un lecteur de disquettes trois pouces intégré. Sa vie fut de courte durée puisqu'en 1985 il fut remplacé par le CPC 6128 qui était plus compact, plus soigné et surtout qui avait 128Ko de RAM au lieu de 64Ko. |
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