PureBasic User Guide: Full Contents

(Note that this is the contents of the User Guide, and may not contain information about every single aspect of PureBasic. The Reference section of the manual has a complete listing and explanation of everything.)

Part I - Internal and important basic commands

1. Getting Started
   1. Introduction
   2. About PureBasic
   3. User Guide overview
   4. Conventions used in this guide
   5. How to get PureBasic
   6. Installing and running PureBasic
   7. Using the editor
2. Your first PureBasic program
   
   1. Introduction and Requirements
   2. Fundamentals of the PureBasic language
   3. Your first program!
   4. Breakdown and explanation of the program
   5. Summary
3. Variables
   1. Introduction and Requirements
   2. What are variables?
   3. Variable types
   4. Creating variables
   5. Summary
4. Simple processing of variables
   1. Introduction and Requirements
   2. Equals
   3. Addition
   4. Subtraction
   5. Multiplication and Division
   6. Operator precedence
   7. Expressions
   8. Summary
   9. Practise exercises
5. Loops and decisions
   1. Introduction
   2. Comparison operators
   3. Choosing to execute some instructions (If...Else...EndIf)
   4. Choosing one set of instructions from a set (Select...Case...EndSelect)
   5. Repeating instructions a set number of times (For...Next)
   6. Repeating instructions while something is happening (While...Wend)
   7. Repeating instructions until something happens (Repeat...Until)
   8. Exiting loops early (Goto, FakeEndSelect)
   9. Summary
   10. Exercises
6. Interacting with the user
   1. Introduction
   2. Creating text displays
   3. Displaying text
   4. Reading values from the user
   5. Changing the appearance of the display
   6. Summary
   7. Exercises
7. String manipulation
8. Working with lots of data
9. Advanced variable types
10. Structuring code for re-usability
11. Compiler commands
12. Memory access
13. Advanced mathematical operations
14. Debugging your programs
15. Further reading
    1. Hints for further development
    2. Useful online resources
    3. Brief library descriptions