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This book may be used as a self-contained manual for BBC-BASIC, the main language of the BBC Microcomputer and Master Series Computers. Information is presented in a form handy for reference. Page 163, for example, tabulates all characters in the ASCII range; pages 124-5 summarize all information needed when composing screens of MODE 7 graphics. A quick reference to all functions and operators is given on page 179; the syntax of every statement and command of BBC-Basic is summarized on pages 180-1. But there is more to this book. How do you make a computer sort names into alphabetical order? Not as obvious as it might seem. Three different sorting techniques are explained by example in this book: bubble sort, monkey puzzle (more formally the 'binary tree') and Quicksort relies on 'recursion' - an important programming concept which is explained and demonstrated. Making coloured objects rebound around the walls of a squash court is another technique demonstrated; so is making voices sing in harmony; so is computerizing a humble address book.

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Book category Books in English Computing & information technology Computer programming / software development Programming & scripting languages: general

• Full title: Illustrating BBC Basic
• Author: Donald G. Alcock
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 196
• EAN: 9780521314954
• ISBN: 052131495X
• ID: 02027454
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 430 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 156 × 11 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. September 1986

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