Just a quick note for those of you too young to remember the early days: my first home machine was a TRS-80 (from Radio Shack, with the monitor and keyboard all inside a big gray shell.)

It had...

Yes. I've written in a number of languages and QuickBASIC (NOT the same as QBASIC) is my favorite for ease of use and intuitive structure.

Originally I needed to write some assembly code for...

I apologize for not replying sooner.

When I first tried the suggestions above, Henry's didn't work at all (and still doesn't.) The snippet below:

This is the text-box:
<input type="text"...

In reply to the original post, let's distinguish between QBASIC and QuickBASIC.

I suggest strongly using the latter - if you're actually going to write programs to use you'll need features the...

I know what it means in a logical system (that it's possible to derive a contradiction from the given premises) but I don't think I've heard the term used w.r.t. DATA statements. Can you provide a...

I think that PRINT and LOCATE rowparam,colparam are good starting points (as in a "Hello, World" program.)

Also, I hope you will teach the three types of program structures (linear sequencing,...

I have a form with several text boxes.

The onblur handler for each calls a function, and so does the onfocus handler. Both the functions alter the display.

When I am in one text box and...

If you don't need the book to "teach" you as long as it explains everything with precision, a GREAT companion book for Sam's (which will lead you by the hand, but only goes a few steps with you) is...

I installed QuickBASIC 4.5 (yeah, I know, but it's comfortable) on a P4 2.3G (w/448Megs of RAM) HP Notebook w/ 30Gigs free on the hard drive and running XP.

I first ran this QB version on a P3...