Microsoft KB Archive/19902

Microsoft QuickBASIC PSS ID Number: Q19902 Article last modified on 02-26-1987 PSS database name: PRESS

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MICROSOFT QUICKBASIC by Douglas Hergert $18.95 384 pages ISBN: 0-914845-99-3 Pub. Date: March 9, 1987

Microsoft Press Publishes Microsoft QuickBASIC

Companion Disk Available

Microsoft QuickBASIC has been praised by critics as a powerful and highly useful compiler for the professional programmers as well as the BASIC programmer eager for more power and sophistication. In addition, PC Magazine recently honored this product with its Award for Technical Excellence. This advanced BASIC compiler is the subject of a new book from Microsoft Press. Set for publication on March 9, 1987, MICROSOFT QUICKBASIC is a thorough guide to developing structured programs with QuickBASIC. Author Douglas Hergert begins with an overview of QuickBASIC’s significant development tools and a discussion of modular programming. These exciting new features include a full-screen menu-driven editor with cut-and-paste and search-and-replace capabilities, an extremely fast compiler with several compiling and debugging options, and a structured language that includes subprograms, multiline user-defined functions, and flexible multiline IF…THEN…ELSE statements. The heart of MICROSOFT QUICKBASIC lies in the collection of five complete QuickBASIC programs. Each program illustrates specific QuickBASIC concepts and commands, and each one is a useful stand-alone application that can be customized to the user’s needs. These self-contained tutorials include a mortgage calculation program which explores the use of data types; a charting program that focuses on loops, arrays, and graphics; a business survey program that highlights sequential data files; a database management program that covers the QuickBASIC commands and functions designed for creating and using random-access files; and a game of Twenty-One that focuses on the multiline IF…THEN…ELSE statement. In all, MICROSOFT QUICKBASIC will teach programmers at all levels how to develop efficient programs with this powerful advanced BASIC. To help save readers time and effort, Microsoft Press has created a special companion disk containing the five major programs and eight supporting routines listed in the book. The disk contains over 3500 lines of well written and documented code. Priced at $15.95, the disk can be ordered directly from Microsoft Press. Douglas Hergert is the author of more than a dozen books, including the bestselling COMMAND PERFORMANCE: dBASE III, COMMAND PERFORMANCE: Microsoft Excel and MICROSOFT EXCEL WITH MACROS, all published by Microsoft Press. His next book, COMMAND PERFORMANCE: dBASE III Plus will be published in June 1987. Douglas Hergert lives in San Francisco, California. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ “MSFT”), based in Redmond, Washington, develops, markets, and supports a wide range of software for business and professional use, including operating systems, languages, and application programs as well as books and hardware for the microcomputer marketplace.

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1987.