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If Only I'd Known...
This was my freshman math text at Tulane in 1959. As a graduate of po-dunk high school I didn't have a clue what finite math was or what the hell my profs were talking about.

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The BEST intro book on BASIC
I was introduced to BASIC with this book back in the 70's.It wasn't until later that I realized it's true value.Clearly written with concrete examples pulled from a variety of fields will make it a resource book (a "go-to" book, excuse the pun) for years to come.The Coan books (BASIC BASIC and ADVANCED BASIC) are a close second to this book.And all others are far behind.

Sections include:
Introduction
Elementary BASIC
Time Sharing
Loops
Lists & Tables
Functions & Subroutines
Alphabetic Information
Debugging (including test cases & tracing) (QA when it wasn't even fashionable!)
Problems from Elementary Mathematics
Number Theory
Simulation
Games
Business Problems (including Critical Path Analysis)
Files
Text Processing
Statistics
Vectors & Matrices
Calculus (including a prgm to test convergence of different integration techniques)
Special Topics (including a Foxes vs. Rabbits ecological simulation)

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