THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS

 

Internet Basic

 

Introduction

 

 

Part 1 – BASIC Applications

 

Chapter 1 – Here’s Some Source Code

Chapter 2 – Every Language Has Rules

Chapter 3 – A Word About Printing

Chapter 4 – A Few Words About Files

Chapter 5 – Inquiry and Maintenance Programs

Chapter 6 – Dealing with Runtime Exceptions

Chapter 7 – Control Structures

Chapter 8 – Subprograms

Chapter 9 – Functions

Chapter 10 – Control Codes

 

Chapter 11 – Data, Data, Data

 

 

 

 

Other topics that need coverage:

            More info on the INPUT statement and it’s options (easy scan, mouse input, single key transmit)

FILE statement

System variables

ROUND

Conditional Compilation

System symbolic constants

Edit masks

User record buffer

Lookup programs

Comet windows

Sorting (gateway)

DOS calls?

ACCESS (and security)

IPC and INTERRUPT

 

 

Part 2 – Internet Applications

 

Winsock and sendmail

XAP (re-work the eComet tutorial)

 

 

Part 3 – Other Gateway Applications

 

ODBC (recycle the ODBC documentation)

Fax (recycle the fax driver documentation)

Serial (recycle the serial driver documentation)

 

 

Part 4 – GUI Applications

 

Part 5 – Utility Programs

 

Configuration (recycle the SYSGEN documentation)

Other utilities

IDMAINT and security scheme

NOVA and SuperNova

 

            Data dictionary and Reporter?

 

 

 

Appendix: Compiler scripting commands

Appendix: ASCII chart

Appendix: Reserved words

Appendix: Runtime Exceptions

Appendix: Compiler Errors