Is the new book Beginners' Guide to Dark Basic any better than the User Guide? That "Guide" is DREADFUL! For example:
1. The "Index" isn't even alphabetized. Perhaps that is the British way to do it, but not for the rest of the English speaking world. They seem to have alphabetized by letter, then sort of sequentially through the book. That is the way it was done in the eighteenth century, since most typsetters couldn't read, so they simply told them to look at the first letter and then put them in sequence as they appeared in the book.
2. The Usage Examples don't go to examples that relate to the subject at had. They only go to generic codes which may or may not relate to the subject.
3. At least one syntax example, that for "load array", is wrong. I used the order which they specify, i.e. Filename, Arrayname(0) and kept getting errors. When i switched the order it ran.
I hope they have had the book gone over by an editor, who deosn't know anything about programming, and by a beginner, to pick up these kinds of problems. If I am going to shell out 75 buck for a book, I want it to correct.
Has anybody bought the book, and does it really do what it says it does, with concise, correct examples and easy to understand instructions?
