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:

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