Books
Over all other ways of learning QBasic, I recommend the reading of books - not one,
but several books in order to get full coverage of topics and to get the perspective of
several authors.
Unfortunately, pretty much all QBasic/QuickBasic books are out of print, but can
still be found in used books stores - both online and in your community. Your search
for books also benefits from the fact that QBasic is over 99% compatible with QuickBasic
(lack of a compiler is the biggest difference), meaning that books written for either
language are completely useful to QBasic programmers.
Recommended QBasic Books
Here are my suggestions on a few QBasic books to get you started. You'll
probably have to buy them used because they are no longer in print. Most can be
bought for about $10 each (that price includes shipping costs).
- QBasic by Example Perry
- Running MS-DOS QBasic Halvorson, Rygmyr
- MS-DOS QBasic: Microsoft Quick Reference Jamsa
- QBasic Made Easy Inman, Albrecht
I suggest Amazon.com as your first stop
in looking to buy a book on QBasic.
Complete Listing
And here's a more complete listing of books. Browse through these to see if a
title catches your attention. I generally do not include QuickBasic books
because they tend to be several years older than QBasic books. QBasic 1.1 was
released 5 years after the release of QuickBasic 4.5.
But since QBasic is a subset of QuickBasic, any books on QuickBasic you can get
will be directly applicable to your QBasic needs.
- A Beginner's Guide to Qbasic Parker, Wertheimer, Meyer (1995)
- A Brief Course in Microsoft QBASIC Schneider (1991)
- A Brief Course in QBASIC with an Introduction to Visual Basic Schneider (1994)
- A Brief Introduction to Basic: Qbasic-Quick Basic Hochwald (1992)
- A Short Course in QBASIC Venit (1996)
- Absolute BEginner's Guide to Qbasic Perry (1993)
- Computers: Concepts and Applications for Users with Qbasic Nickerson (1993)
- Computers: Quick Look at Qbasic Tutorial Trainor (1995)
- Crash Course in Qbasic Perry, Potts (1994)
- Easy Programmign with Qbasic Toupin (1994)
- Fundamentals of Qbasic Programming: Problem Solving and Application Development Nickerson (1995)
- Illustrated Qbasic for MS-DOS 5.0 Venkateswaran (1992)
- Instructors Manual: A Brief Course in QBasic Schneider (1994)
- Introduction ot Programming with QuickBasic/QBASIC Meyer (1993)
- Introduction to Computer Programming with Qbasic Carney (1998)
- Introduction to Program Design with QBasic
- Introduction to Programming in QBasic Baumann (1993)
- Mastering Qbasic and QuickBasic Albrecht, Inman (1994)
- Microsoft Qbasic: An Introduction to Structured Programming Schneider (1991)
- MS-DOS Qbasic (Microsoft Quick Reference) Jamsa (1991)
- Power of ... Qbasic Goodwin (1991)
- Practical Qbasic Programming James
- Programmign Logic with QBASIC: A Workbook of Business Programming Applications Scott, Higgins (1993)
- Programming in QBASIC for Engineering Technology Craven (1998)
- Programming Q-BASIC for Engineering Technology Craven (1998)
- Programming With Qbasic: Be an Expert! Scherpenisse (1995)
- QBASIC - A Step by Step Reference Lee (2004)
- Qbasic (Microsoft) Bent, Sethares (1996)
- QBASIC A. to Z. Reference Sinclair (1993)
- QBASIC Beginners Book Sinclair (1993)
- Qbasic by Example Perry (1993, Que)
- Qbasic for Beginners Tornsdorf (1993)
- Qbasic for Beginners Tornsdorf, Tornsdorf (1992)
- Qbasic for Business Problems Solving Forsmark (1995)
- QBASIC for Rookies (1993)
- Qbasic for Students Trombetta (1993)
- QBASIC Fundamental and Style Shelly, Cashman (1993)
- QBasic Fundamentals and STyle with an Introduction to MS Visual Basic Quasney, Maniotes, Forman (2000)
- QBASIC Fundamentals and Style Quasney, Maniotes (1993)
- Qbasic Games and More! Sexton (1993)
- QBasic Games and More Sexton (1996)
- Qbasic Made Easy Inman, Albrecht (1991)
- QBasic Program Development Jones (1996)
- Qbasic Programming 101 Perry (1993)
- Qbasic Programming for Dummies Hergert (1994)
- Qbasic Programming: Structured Applications Nickerson (1993)
- Qbasic Programming Schneider (1991)
- QBASIC Text & Working Model CD Shelly, Cashman, Gleason (1997)
- QBasic Using Subprograms, 2nd Ed. Quasney, Maniotes, Formen (1997)
- QBASIC with an Introduction to Visual Basic for Engineering, Mathematics, and the Sciences Schneider (1994)
- Qbasic: A Brief Introduction Wennington (1996)
- Qbasic: A Short Course in Structure Programming Martin (1998)
- Qbasic: An Introduction to Programming Shelly, Cashman, Gleason (1996)
- Qbasic: Beginning to Advanced Hochwald, Dachslager, Yuhnke (1994)
- QBasic: Includes Microsoft QBasic Interpreter Baumann (1992)
- QBasic: Programmer's Quick Reference by Kris Jamsa (1991).
- Qbasic: The Language of MS-DOS James (1994)
- Qbasic Amoroso, Boyd, Cohen (1994)
- Qbasic Baumann, Baumann, Mandell (1996)
- Qbasic Cassel (1994)
- Qbasic Fenton (1998)
- QBASIC James (1992)
- QBasics by Example (1993)
- Qbasic for Students Trombetta (1993)
- Quick BASIC Programming for Scientists and Engineers Noggle (1993)
- Quickbasic & Qbasic Dejesus (1993)
- Quickbasic and Qbasic Using Modular Structure Bradley (1993)
- Running MS-DOS: Qbasic Halverson, Rygmyr (1991)
- SELECT: QBasic Fenton (1993)
- Structured PRogramming with Microsoft Qbasic Goldstein (1993)
- Structured Programming with Microsoft Qbasic Goldstein (1993)
- Structured QBasdic Lawlor (1996)
- Teach Yourself Qbasic in 21 Days Shammas (1993)
- Teach Yourself Qbasic Butkus (1994)
- The Beginner's Guide to Qbasic Melnikova, Bonushkina, Krylov (1994)
- The Complete Idiot's Guide to Qbasic Perry (1994)
- The Waite Group's Qbasic Primer Plus Mackenroth (1991)
- The Waite Group's QBasic Reference Plus by Waite, Prata, et al. (1991, Que)
- Understanding and Using Qbasic Barron (1994)
- Using Qbasic Feldman, Rugg (1991)
- Utter Novice Guide to Q-BASIC Aitken (1996)
- Van Wolverton's Guide to Qbasic Wolverton (1992)
I'm not aware of any online source for the content of these books. In other
languages, full text of books are sometimes available.
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