QBooks for QB64

[EricE]

Many books were published about QBasic and QuickBasic.
Most of them are no longer in print.
But if a person is going to get books that are useful for programming in QB64, which ones would people here recommend?

[CBTJD]

I'm not a religious man, but hands down, this 940 page "Bible" is hard to beat:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1556152620

[TerryRitchie]

Beat me to it, same book I was going to suggest. My copy is always within arms length when I'm programming.

[CBTJD]

Great minds think alike, eh?

[TerryRitchie]

Yep, yep :-)

[EricE]

Here is the "Russian" QBasic book (in English).

The Revolutionary Guide to Qbasic
https://www.amazon.com/Revolutionary-Guide-Qbasic-Victor-Munerman/dp/1874416206/
by Victor Munerman (Author), Evgeny Yemelchenkov (Author), Tatyana Samoylova (Author), Vladimir Dyakonov (Editor)
Published in 1996 by Wrox Press.

This 577 page book has a lot of technical details and chapters on Graphics (both 2D and 3D), sound, programming a user interface and more.

The inside of the front cover says "Let QBasic Blow Your Mind"

The book came with a floppy disk, but it is hard to find a used copy now that still has it.

EDIT to add:
One customer reviewer at Amazon had this to say about this book.

"The Revolutionary Guide to Qbasic is by far the best book out there for programming games in basic."

[JohnUKresults]

I still use "Using QBasic" by Feldman & Rugg (Que publication) from 1991

[TempodiBasic]

I found some time ago a Qbasic Reference Book, but it is only a paper version of the help into the QB program. SO it has so poor code.
I have used it zero time. No more Qbasic book I have found, but so much tutorials in Qbasic and QB sites!

[EricE]

Hello JohnUKresults.

Let me welcome you to the forum.

I have found on eBay the book that you mentioned, "Using QBasic, by Feldman & Rugg", and ordered it.
Hopefully it won't take long to arrive.

[EricE]

I have just found what must be The List of all lists of QBooks!

The Ultimate List of QBooks
https://www.garybeene.com/qbasic/qb-books.htm

There are more than I thought there would be!

[TempodiBasic]

Thanks BSpinoza you have shared valuable books on QB!

[helium5793]

I just posted a free book under a new topic, MS quickbasic for scientists.  Happy to send it to somebody.
John

[JohnUKresults]

Also found in my "pile under the shelves" is "QBasic - the language of MS-DOS" by Mike James (1992) I/O Press.

Anyone want this?

Not a big book (<250 pages) so shouldn't cost too much for postage in the UK. Not sure about sending overseas though.

[JohnUKresults]

I'm not a religious man, but hands down, this 940 page "Bible" is hard to beat:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1556152620

Hi

I have a slightly earlier Microsoft book - "Microsoft QuickBasic Compiler for DOS Systems 4.5" (1988 reprinted in 1991) which also came with 2 3.5" floppy disks!!

That one stays under the shelves as I find the Que book easier to work with - just used to come out when I needed some reference material.

[CBTJD]

Something that might help in choosing books on this subject; there is a prolific writer named Greg Perry who has written countless computer books. He is handicapped and only has two thumbs, no fingers. I make no judgements. I merely wish to point out that a lot of his books tend to include entire copied groups of chapters or sections from previous books. So, find the title with the most pages written by Greg Perry on the subject and you'll have everything he knows about it. In the case of QBasic, that would be either

https://www.amazon.com/Qbasic-Programming-101-Greg-Perry/dp/0672302810/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=greg+perry+qbasic&qid=1586202879&sr=8-2


or

https://www.amazon.com/QBASIC-Example-Programming-Perry-1994-03-01/dp/B01A68B99G/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=greg+perry+qbasic&qid=1586202879&sr=8-4

in that order.