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 [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of MillowenaJuno > > Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 08:36 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re: I am lost > > > > > > > > Hi Ton! > > > > > > > > Is there a Programming Excel for Dummies? > > > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > Millowena > > > > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! 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