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1990-12-01
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For some time I have been bored with counting the seconds in
doing my knee exercises. I wanted a clock that would "beep"
every so many seconds. And then my eye hit my computer.
In an hour I had written a quick-and-dirty version of a timer
program, that beeped every x seconds and displayed the total
number of repetitions. The next day I had to make a business
trip. I whiled away the flight by working on the program,
using my laptop computer. I spruced up the simple version into
what you have now -- making it more bulletproof, enhancing the
display, and adding the "fortune cookie" sign-off.
This sort of simple and utilitarian programming, where someone
writes a program that doesn't exist on the market, just to fill
some particular need of their own, is exactly the promise of the
home computer -- IF the owner learns how to write programs. But
most programming books for beginners focus on the programming
language, not the writing of programs.
I decided that the only way I would see the introductory
programming book that I had in mind was by writing it myself. It
is published by Laboratory Microsystems, Inc. The title of the
book is Programming for the Utter Beginner who has an MS-DOS
Computer, and that's what it's about.
I hope you like this program, and I would be delighted if you
bought the book.
Michael Ham
Santa Cruz, CA
12/1/90
You can get an idea of the book from the file BOOK.TXT
You can order the book from:
Laboratory Microsystems, Inc.
12555 West Jefferson Boulevard, Suite 202
Los Angeles, CA 90066
Voice: 213/306-7412
BBS: 213/306-3530 (1200/2400/9600, 8N1, 24hrs)