Programming

by Keith Humphrey

J. Weston Walch, Publisher

Grades 7-12. An excellent beginners/intermediate programming book in BASIC. With this one book, you will get all you need for a semester or full year course in BASIC programming skills, including a comprehensive introduction, review, and many practice exercises. Topics include:

• Solving Math Problems and Formatting the Screen
• Getting Data into the Computer's Memory
• Making Decisions and Branching
• Rounding Numbers
• Determining Ranges of Random Numbers
• Loop Structures

To save you hours of tedious keyboarding, the supplementary diskette contains programs for activities and problems in the text. It also gives suggested answers to all problems in the text. You are allowed to make enough copies of this disk for all of your students.

by Keith Humphrey

J. Weston Walch, Publisher

Grades 7-12. It would be difficult for you to find a complete collection of material in any other single text. This book and disk combination gives you ample instructions, explanations, and hands-on practice exercises for an entire intermediate to advanced class in BASIC. Topics include:

• A Review of Topics in A Byte of BASIC
• Modular Programming
• String Manipulation
• Functions
• Subroutines
• Single and Double Array Processing
• Sorting Routines
• Searching Routines
• Sequential Text Files
• Random Access Text Files

Each chapter includes problem sections, so you can experiment as you learn. Final practice sections contain simple to advanced problems that reinforce what you have learned. The structure of the text, the comprehensive answer section, and the capability to make student copies of the disk makes A Second Byte of BASIC is ideal for independent study as well as full-class use. It is an effective follow-up to any introductory text on BASIC, including A Byte of BASIC. A 40 page teacher guide is included with the disk.

by Keith Humphrey

Grades 6 and up. Use the fun and excitement of graphic designs, sound effects, and animation to develop your students programming skills in IBM systems or IBM compatibles. It's a cinch with the help of this complete, easy-to-use teaching unit. The reproducible book and accompanying disk give you everything you need. You are allowed to make enough copies of the lessons and this disk for all of your students.

The book provides step-by-step lessons from writing a first program to creating animation. Activity sheets and quizzes reinforce learning. The disk contains demonstration programs that illustrate concepts presented in the book.

Programs can be modified and stored, saving hours of keyboarding time. Complete background information and organizational guidelines for each section and answers for all student activity sheets and quizzes make your job a breeze. A whole chapter on sound makes it simple for students to produce sound effects, synchronize sound with graphics, convert music notation to code, and play music on the computer.

IBM Graphics Made Easy is a great introduction to graphics and sound production or a source of creative extension activities for your programming course in BASIC. (Note: Compatible with SchoolMate networks.)

by Keith Humphrey

Grades 7-12. Students explore introductory Pascal programming concepts and techniques, from writing a first program to using array processing to create animation. Step-by-step, hands-on lessons and worksheets from the reproducible book teach students how to apply their skills to create original graphic designs using Turbo Pascal. The data disk contains operational project programs as well as demo programs with sample operations to illustrate the activities and their outcomes.

Teaching materials include notes, objectives, and suggested answers. Detailed illustrations in both student pages and answer section guide you and your students through the activities.

Pascal Graphics Made Easy gives you plenty of supplementary material for a beginning or intermediate Pascal course.