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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Hands On DarkBASIC Pro - Volume 1

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Programmer Dave
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Posted: 9th Mar 2006 05:23
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I've never done like any programming before, i know the basics like inserting images, text, some stuff bout variables, and making boxes etc.
I was wondering wat people thought of the 'Hands On DarkBASIC Pro - Volume 1' book. Is it a good read? will it help me get better?

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HowDo
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Posted: 9th Mar 2006 05:32
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Very simple answer YES, will take you form a hamgman game to astriods and show you many things that you would not have thought of doing.

Vol 2 when release will Show you how to do the 3d stuff; which might be out by the time you've worked your way through Vol 1.

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sadsack
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Posted: 9th Mar 2006 21:23
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I found 'Hands On DarkBASIC Pro - Volume 1' to be very good, If you just strating out DBP the you should get it. A book like this one should come with DBP.
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Programmer Dave
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Posted: 9th Mar 2006 21:52
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ok, i guess i will get it. but i'll probly wait until Sunday night and see if i still want it.

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Philip
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Posted: 9th Mar 2006 23:10
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You can never buy enough programming books in my opinion.

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Programmer Dave
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Posted: 10th Mar 2006 07:16
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any other comments on it?
$80US is a lot for me (seeing as i'm aussie :/) and thats over half the money i have in paypal...so i want to make the right choice

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Aaron Miller
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Posted: 10th Mar 2006 08:17
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whens v2 come out?

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Programmer Dave
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Posted: 10th Mar 2006 12:07
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wat do u mean?

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Posted: 10th Mar 2006 13:18
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Volume 1 is very good. It makes you work through the chapters with challenging exercises. It does point out stuff that I didn't know you could do. Well worth the money.
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Aoneweb
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Posted: 10th Mar 2006 23:35
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Quote: "$80US is a lot for me"

It's over $22 shipping.

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Artaures
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Posted: 11th Mar 2006 01:27
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I sure hope its a good book, because I ordered mine back in December and still havent gotten it. (I live in the U.S.)
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HowDo
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Posted: 11th Mar 2006 05:34
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Artaures have you tried looking in your profile section on here and looking under orders, it will tell if/when they started your order.

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XANAX 2B
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Posted: 11th Mar 2006 08:44
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I'm waiting for the volume 2 to buy the 2 volumes together.

I think (if it is possible) that it can be a good thing to make them translated in french and german too, because there is no french book about dbpro.

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Aoneweb
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Posted: 13th Mar 2006 00:06
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If anyone wants to sell me a used copy, may be you don't need it any more, let me know, I may be intrested

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sadsack
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I will sell mine for $250.00 US. It took 99 days for my book to get here. Michigan USA. It was will worth it.
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Aoneweb
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Posted: 13th Mar 2006 01:27
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The check is in the post.
Now my request was a real request, if you have no intesion selling your copy, don't post crap.

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