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Hello, O/

I've been intrested in learning PB for a long time, a couple of months ago i purchased the book from pb-beginners.co.uk unfortunatly i've only just got around to start reading it and starting to learn PB, i visited the site to download the source material to find the message
"My book is no longer available for purchase, as the information contained within was rendered obsolete by a new language version." Does this mean the whole book is no good or are just some topics like the 3D no longer useful.

Any help or a point in the right direction would be greatly apreciated.
Thnx

BenH wrote:Hello, O/

I've been intrested in learning PB for a long time, a couple of months ago i purchased the book from pb-beginners.co.uk unfortunatly i've only just got around to start reading it and starting to learn PB, i visited the site to download the source material to find the message
"My book is no longer available for purchase, as the information contained within was rendered obsolete by a new language version." Does this mean the whole book is no good or are just some topics like the 3D no longer useful.

Any help or a point in the right direction would be greatly apreciated.
Thnx

IMHO it means that because PureBasic is an evolving language that some of the information in the book has become inaccurate. This applies in some degree to the code presented throughout the book. In other words the code may not function without some modification to bring it in line with the current version of PureBasic. The PureBasic help file has a History list of changes to help alert you to some of the things that may need to be changed, or you can just respond to messages that are displayed when you try to compile/run sample source code.

After looking through the book you can of course make use of these forums to supplement the PureBasic help file so that you can work through the different aspects of the language. blueznl's PB Survival Guide, which he posted a link too is also a good source and it is kept more up-to-date.

thnx guys, thats cleared things up nicely.

The changes made to the language are outlined here:
http://www.purebasic.com/documentation/ ... story.html

I think the book was written for version 4.20, so you just have to look at the history for 4.30. The "Changed" and "Removed" parts are the important ones.

As long as you apply these changes to the code provided in the book you should be fine.