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Purebasic

Gary Willoughby

A Beginner’s Guide To Computer Programming

Purebasic

Gary Willoughby

A Beginners Guide To Computer Programming

PureBasic - A Beginner’s Guide To Computer Programming

by Gary Willoughby

This book and all included source materials such as diagrams, photos and PureBasic source code is

distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License. More

details can be found here: http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/

PureBasic is a registered trademark of Fantaisie Software. PureBasic and all provided tools and

Fantaisie Software

10, rue de Lausanne

67640 Fegersheim

France

www.purebasic.com

Published 2006, by Aardvark Global Publishing.

Editor

Gary Willoughby

Print History

July 2006 - First Edition

Disclaimer

While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book and the programs contained

within it, the author and publisher assumes no responsibility whatsoever for errors, omissions, or for

damages resulting from the use of the information or programs contained herein. The author or

publisher shall not be liable if incidental or consequential damages occur in connection with, or arising

from, the furnishings, performance, or use of the programs, associated instructions, and/or claims of

productivity gains. All information contained herein is considered accurate at time of publication but

because PureBasic is a language in a constant state of refinement and development, some information

over time may be rendered out-of-date. For up to date news and information regarding PureBasic

please refer to www.purebasic.com.

Trademarks

Trademarked names appear throughout this book. Rather than list the names and entities that own

the trademarks or insert a trademark symbol with each mention of the trademarked name, the

publisher states that it is using the names for editorial purposes only and to the benefit of the

trademark owner, with no intention of infringing on that trademark.

Dedication

Dedicated to my girlfriend, Sara Jane Gostick and her dog ‘Stella’ for putting up with many lonely

nights while I wrote this book and for the encouragement (and chicken dinners) she always gives

me.

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Fred and the Purebasic team for the Purebasic language, keep up the good work, it rocks!

Thanks to Paul Dixon for clarifying some of the details regarding binary encoding of floating point

numbers.

Thanks to Timo Harter for helping to choose what Purebasic data types would best substitute the

Win32 API types, and for demonstrating how to retrieve different strings from memory via the

different Win32 API String pointer types.

“With great power there must also come great responsibility!”

--Ben Parker (Spiderman’s Uncle)

Code examples contained in this book can be downloaded freely from

www.pb-beginners.co.uk

ISBN 1-4276-0428-2 19/7/2006

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