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Hello Allan,
I am having success with:
SAMS 'Teach Yourself Beginning Programming' in 24 Hours'.
Author = Graig Perry
Sams Publishing
International Standard Book No 0-672-323307-9
Published in America.
www.samspublishing.com
The spine says $29.99 USD.
I haven't started the ascent of Mt AFL itself as yet, because I
couldn't see a clear path.
I decide to scope the general lie of the land first.
I didn't want to be up there wandering around in the dark.
I am very happy with the above book.
My customer satisfaction ometer is at 10/10.
I live in a regional area of Australia so it was one of those
fortuitous shopping expeditions when the buy seems > the probabality
of finding what you want.
The local book-store only had two relevant books to choose between
and this was the perfect one.
As per the title the book has 24 chapters.
I am not sure about reading each in one hour but they are easily
readable and understandable.
I am just reading one chapter per day.
It is in the very clear, logical and user friendly style that
American educators are renowned for.
It walks the reader through the main lanuages in use today, starting
with basic, and including Java, Visual Basic, C, C++, Markup
Languages and .net.
It also explains the basic conventions of programming.
It comes with a disc full of examples but I haven't spun it yet.
The code example you give is a programming standard and it is easier
to understand if its equivalent in basic is understood first.
There are building blocks within and common to languages and there
are blueprints to show where and when to use them.
That is all explained in the book.
There are no absolutes though.
Some ambiguity has to be tolerated but thankfully there are enough
rules to allow casual visitors to survive.
I believe that AFL would be closest to C/C++ than other languages
but that won't really matter once you've read the book.
The source code for the new plug-in is in C++ (?).
The AFL help manual in AB definitely assumes prior programming
experience and it is also not written by a professional educator so
I would definitely recommend the above book or something similar.
I would, however, have to compliment AB for the wide range of
examples provided in the function reference manual.
Once I have read the above book a couple of times I believe that I
can go straight to the examples as the next logical step in the
learning process and from there I should be over the hard part.
I don't think any additional study of programming, per se, would be
required after that unless you intend to go on and use the
specialist custom features (.COM, OLE, DDE type stuff).
The good news is that AB is simply a hard program to break in as it
is a level above the GUI type programs the average user is familiar
with.
I haven't been as comfortable as I usually am with new programs but
after hanging in for 2-3 months I am now just starting to feel at
home, so hanging in is the technical operative that suits the
occasion or in every day language 'hang cool dude'.
The even better news is that I actually believe it is all easy.
Everything seems hard at first.
>From your electronic fingerprint I predict you will actually be
quite good with AFL and I am usually right about that type of thing.
BrianB2.
--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, allansn@xxx wrote:
>
> Hi Terry,
> Noticed you reccomended these 2 books...I have absolutely no
problem coding in Amibroker,but I do run into problems with coding
such as this..
> for( i = 0; i < *BarCount*; i++ )
> {
> if( priceatbuy == 0 *AND* *Buy*[ i ] )
> {
> priceatbuy = *BuyPrice*[ i ];
>
> How would one become proficient/knowledgable in writing code such
as this???
> Is this AFL??? or
> Is this sort of language inherent in every language?
> Would either of the 2 books you reccomended assist me in this task?
> If you or anyone could point me in the direction of a "Dummies "
book,that would be great.I would just like to be proficient at
writing/understanding code such as the snippet above
>
> Someone reccomended Beggining Programming for Dummies by Wang...
>
> Any thoughts deeply appreciated
>
> Allan
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Terry <MagicTH@xxx>
> Date: Sunday, July 16, 2006 9:34 pm
> Subject: RE: [amibroker] Re: I am lost
> > Great book for macro and function coding:
> > http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/productCd-0764543717.html
> >
> > Excel for Dummies:
> > http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1568840500/sr=1-
> > 1/qid=1153099963/ref=sr_1_1/104-1895807-1075905?ie=UTF8&s=books
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Terry
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> > Behalf Of MillowenaJuno
> > Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 08:36
> > To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re: I am lost
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi Ton!
> >
> >
> >
> > Is there a Programming Excel for Dummies?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> >
> > Millowena
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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