Advanced Programming Techniques on the Commodore 64

Advanced Programming Techniques on the Commodore 64: Powerful Ideas and Applications is a BASIC programming book for the Commodore 64 by David Lawrence, first published in 1983 by Sunshine Books (an imprint of Scot Press Ltd), London, and reprinted in 1984. ISBN 0 946408 23 8. Open Library gives the extent as ix, 174 pages; the main text ends with the postword on p. 171.

The back cover describes it as a book "for anyone who wants to begin real programming with the Commodore 64", following Lawrence's The Working Commodore 64. Each chapter covers one technique in BASIC, with listings.

Contents

Page numbers are from the contents list.

• Notes on program listings, p. ix; Introduction, p. 1
• 1. Modular Programming, p. 3
• 2. Debugging, p. 17
• 3. Strings, p. 27
• 4. Inputting Information, p. 41
• 5. Error Trapping, p. 53
• 6. Storing and Retrieving (tape and disk), p. 65
• 7. Logical Conditions, p. 79
• 8. A Jungle of Sorts (bubble, delayed replacement and Shell-Metzner sorts), p. 93
• 9. Data Structures: I, p. 111
• 10. Data Structures: II, p. 127
• 11. Inserting Data, p. 141
• 12. Odds and Ends, p. 149
• 13. Formatting, p. 159
• Postword, p. 171

What this book does not contain

It is a programming book with no hardware or service information; Commodore's repair documentation is in the Commodore 64 / 64C Service Manual. The 189-page scan has an OCR text layer and ends with Sunshine's list of other titles, the back cover and a page from retro-commodore.eu.

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