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Can anyone suggest a good book or site for learning BASIC language?

I would like to try my hands on Realbasic but all that I read about this software is about the user interfaces. Not much is available on how to code. Thank you and best regards.

guardian_10
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    Why are you trying to learn BASIC? – Oded Mar 18 '11 at 14:48
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    actually, I'm trying to figure out how to enter codes in Real Studio, which uses realbasic language. So, that's why I'd like to learn BASIC. Please correct me if I am wrong. – guardian_10 Mar 18 '11 at 15:29

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There are a number of resources available to learn Real Studio. First, there are the hundreds of example programs that come with the IDE itself. They are a good place to start poking around so you can discover the questions you don't know you have yet.

The Association of REALbasic Professionals has a source code repository that contains over 150 tutorials and projects for Real Studio. They also have conference videos and other miscellaneous resources. They are at http://www.arbp.org.

My site has over 30 hours of Real Basic training videos at http://www.bkeeney.com. Most of the sessions have an associated project file that you are free to peruse and use in your own projects.

Also take a look at VTC which has about 8 hours of video training available for real studio at http://www.vtc.com/products/Real-Studio-Tutorials.htm

Sadly, most of the books are pretty dated. Real Studio is updated every 90 days which means that any book published today will already be dated in a few months. There are some available from Amazon and I would search there: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=realbasic&x=0&y=0

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  • Thanks for the reply. Could you please point to any specific link or article which deals with the codes one has to enter for a control to function. I'm tired of searching high and low. All the sites and tutorials I have seen so far only concentrate on the interface part of RB, which is very easy to understand. How to go about learning to code is what stumps me. – guardian_10 Mar 22 '11 at 07:11
  • Sure. You can take a take a look at the tag cloud of all the training videos that I've created at http://www.bkeeney.com/realbasic-training-section/cloud-tag. You should also take a look at the RB Wiki at http://docs.realsoftware.com/ and specifically the Language Reference part of it. Also, I'd take a look at the examples folder as there are hundreds of examples. – BKeeney Software Mar 27 '11 at 17:25