Pbasic book on wikibooks
softcon
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I searched in the forums, and didn't see any mention of it, so figured I'd let folks know.
On wikibooks, there's a book about pbasic. I've not looked at it yet other than to verify it was about the parallax pbasic, but nonetheless, I thought it might be of interest to some on this forum.
The url directly to the book is:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/PBASIC_Programming
Like most wikibooks entries, it doesn't have navigation links to go to next/previous sections inside the book, you need to return to the toc for that, but otherwise, it appears to be pretty thorough.
Thought it might help some here, though I don't know how current it may be.
hth.
On wikibooks, there's a book about pbasic. I've not looked at it yet other than to verify it was about the parallax pbasic, but nonetheless, I thought it might be of interest to some on this forum.
The url directly to the book is:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/PBASIC_Programming
Like most wikibooks entries, it doesn't have navigation links to go to next/previous sections inside the book, you need to return to the toc for that, but otherwise, it appears to be pretty thorough.
Thought it might help some here, though I don't know how current it may be.
hth.
Comments
At a quick glance, I found this error in that listing under RCtime:
Most capacitors that will be used in small applications have very small values, such as 1 millifarad or less.
He certainly meant microfarad. Not the end of the world, but at least one guy will go crazy looking for a 1 mF cap in Radio Shack...
It's hard to beat Parallax's own books (WAM, Robotics w/BoEBot, etc) all available as pdfs for free download.
It's "thin" on information in general, has empty chapters, and while I'm no expert, there appeared to be some questionable statements.
I'd say it's a notable effort and could be useful when completed. But I'd alwasy recommend the PBasic Syntax and Programming manual first.