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Microsoft Macinations 1985

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Microsoft Macinations: An Introduction to Microsoft BASIC for the Apple Macintosh is a book by the Waite Group (Mitchell Waite, Robert Lafore and Ira Lansing), published by Microsoft Press, Bellevue, Washington, © 1985, ISBN 0-914845-34-9, Library of Congress card number 85-13863. It is dedicated "to Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, whose combined visions made this book possible". The text and index are numbered to p. 497; the scan has 505 PDF pages.[1]

Section I teaches BASIC from the beginning; Section II covers the Macintosh-specific features of Microsoft BASIC: mouse events, menus, buttons, windows and dialogs, QuickDraw graphics, files, animation and four-voice sound.[1]

Contents

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Acknowledgments (ix), Introduction (xi)

  • Section I, Introduction to BASIC: 1 BASIC Preliminaries (3); 2 Instant BASIC (27); 3 Programs: Creating, Editing, and Saving (45); 4 Introducing Graphics (71); 5 Variables and INPUT (95); 6 Loops (117); 7 Decisions (143); 8 Subroutines and Program Organization (159); 9 Arrays and Read-Data (177); 10 Strings (201)
  • Section II, Advanced BASIC for the Macintosh: 11 The Mouse and Event Trapping (229); 12 Menus (251); 13 Buttons (279); 14 Windows, Dialog Boxes, and Edit Fields (303); 15 QuickDraw (339); 16 Files (389); 17 Animation (431); 18 Multivoice Sound (459)
  • Index (489)

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References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Waite Group, Microsoft Macinations, Microsoft Press, 1985, ISBN 0-914845-34-9. Title and copyright pages (PDF pp. 3-4), dedication (PDF p. 5), contents (PDF pp. 6-7), index pp. 489-497.