Beginning REALbasic: From Novice to Professional (Expert's...

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 400 pages
• Published by: Apress May 11, 2006
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 159059634X
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1590596340
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 0.9 inches
• Weighs: 1.3 pounds

Product Description


If youre just getting into programming, or youre already an experienced VB programmer who wants to quickly learn a programming alternative, then REALbasic is the ideal language for you. REALbasic is an easy-to-learn, powerful, cross-platform programming language that allows you to write powerful applications that may be distributed across Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Beginning REALbasic is an ideal beginners title: it starts off with a detailed introduction to REALbasic and its interface and basic functions to get you settled in comfortably. The book continues by exploring the basics of programming with REALbasiccreating interfaces, menus, and toolbars, and working with conditional logic, loops, databases, object-oriented programming, sound, graphics, and more.

Each chapter provides essential background knowledge, without wasting any time on unnecessary theory. The book also features step-by-step tutorials that help you build real-world expertise.

About The Author
Jerry Lee Ford, Jr. is an author, educator, and IT professional with over 16 years' experience in information technology. His roles have included automation analyst, technical manager, technical support analyst, automation engineer, and security analyst. Ford has authored 16 other computer books, including Visual Basic 2005 Express Programming for the Absolute Beginner, VBScript Professional Projects, Microsoft Windows Shell Scripting and WSH Administrator's Guide, Learn VBScript in a Weekend, Microsoft Windows Shell Scripting for the Absolute Beginner, Learn JavaScript in a Weekend, and Microsoft Windows XP Professional Administrator's Guide.



Ford has a masters degree in business administration from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, and has over 5 years' experience as an adjunct instructor teaching networking courses in information technology.

Reader Reviews
My first introduction to Jerry Lee Ford, Jr.'s work was an introduction to VBScript and WSH which was just plain awful. Thus I was a bit leery of ordering another book by him. I'm pleased to report that Ford has done an excellent job of providing a solid introduction to REALbasic. It is indeed a basic introduction and may be too insubstantial for very experienced programmers. For beginners through intermediate, though, I think it's a fine piece of work and easier to work with than REALbasic's own tutorial manual. Ford provides an overview of REALbasic first and contrasts it with VisualBasic. By page 58, he has the reader constructing a simple, but impressive, REALbasic application that does a nice job of demonstrating how easy it is to program REALbasic for simple tasks and how versatile it can be. He then moves through creating menu structures in REALbasic and other basic programming concepts. Chapter 8 is a pretty good basic introduction to Object-Oriented Programming. Chapters 9 and ten introduce text file and data processing. Chapter 11 covers graphics and audio and Chapter 12 covers debugging. Example programs are provided for each chapter. None of them are overly complex, but all do teach you the basic features of REALbasic. All in all, it's well done for the new to intermediate level programmer who is coming to REALbasic. Jerry