num_pages: 128
description: The must-have software idea book, overflowing with hints, secrets, shortcuts, and color techniques… with 101 ready-to-run programs.Here’s a mammoth collection of practical, useful, efficient programming techniques and operating shortcuts right out of a master programmer’s notebook. Loaded with tips, tricks, hints, secrets and easy-to-follow instructions, this book tells you how to handle routine programming chores more quickly, do special effects, make your computer work for you—faster and more efficiently.Each of the 101 TRS-80 Color Computer programming tips and tricks in this book features a complete program which will run all by itself, or as part of a larger set of instructions. All 101 programs are tested and ready-to-run. Color Computer functions and statements in both Color BASIC and Extended Color BASIC are included.Learn insider’s how-to secrets for using the exciting BASIC words, CIRCLE, COLOR, DRAW, PAINT, PLAY, SCREEN, EDIT, LINE, PCLEAR, PCLS, PMODE, PSET, PRESET, PRINT USING, MOTOR, SOUND, ON/GOTO, IF/THEN/ELSE, TIMER, STRING$, CHR$, STR$, and many others.Sections in this book include colorful graphics, sound of music, text on text, fun &amp; games, number crunching and odds &amp; ends. Special techniques are here for both medium-resolution and high-resolution graphics; writing and playing both popular and classical music; colorful program titles and billboards; making sound cues and video rainbows; drawing grid and bar graphs; poking and peeking into memory; searching, ordering, sorting and error trapping; lettering, numbering and erasing graphics pages; making a custom cursor; drawing sketches; creating low-resolution graphics on text pages.You’ll learn what to do, how to do it, when to make changes and when not to, all in this extensive, info-packed Color Computer programmer’s handbook of tricks.
language: English
title: One Hundred and One Color Computer Programming Tips and Tricks
titlecomplete: One Hundred and One Color Computer Programming Tips and Tricks
ratings_count: 1
publisher: ARCsoft Publishers