A Beginner's Guide to Amiga E

An introduction to programming the Amiga with Amiga E

18 November 1997

• A Beginner's Guide to Amiga E
• 1 Introduction to Amiga E
  • 1.1 A Simple Program
    • 1.1.1 The code
    • 1.1.2 Compilation
    • 1.1.3 Execution
• 2 Understanding a Simple Program
  • 2.1 Changing the Message
    • 2.1.1 Tinkering with the example
    • 2.1.2 Brief overview
  • 2.2 Procedures
    • 2.2.1 Procedure Definition
    • 2.2.2 Procedure Execution
    • 2.2.3 Extending the example
  • 2.3 Parameters
  • 2.4 Strings
  • 2.5 Style, Reuse and Readability
  • 2.6 The Simple Program
• 3 Variables and Expressions
  • 3.1 Variables
    • 3.1.1 Variable types
    • 3.1.2 Variable declaration
    • 3.1.3 Assignment
    • 3.1.4 Global and local variables (and procedure parameters)
    • 3.1.5 Changing the example
  • 3.2 Expressions
    • 3.2.1 Mathematics
    • 3.2.2 Logic and comparison
    • 3.2.3 Precedence and grouping
• 4 Program Flow Control
  • 4.1 Conditional Block
    • 4.1.1 IF block
    • 4.1.2 IF expression
    • 4.1.3 SELECT block
    • 4.1.4 SELECT..OF block
  • 4.2 Loops
    • 4.2.1 FOR loop
    • 4.2.2 WHILE loop
    • 4.2.3 REPEAT..UNTIL loop
• 5 Summary
• 6 Format and Layout
  • 6.1 Identifiers
  • 6.2 Statements
  • 6.3 Spacing and Separators
  • 6.4 Comments
• 7 Procedures and Functions
  • 7.1 Functions
  • 7.2 One-Line Functions
  • 7.3 Default Arguments
  • 7.4 Multiple Return Values
• 8 Constants
  • 8.1 Numeric Constants
  • 8.2 String Constants: Special Character Sequences
  • 8.3 Named Constants
  • 8.4 Enumerations
  • 8.5 Sets
• 9 Types
  • 9.1 LONG Type
    • 9.1.1 Default type
    • 9.1.2 Memory addresses
  • 9.2 PTR Type
    • 9.2.1 Addresses
    • 9.2.2 Pointers
    • 9.2.3 Indirect types
    • 9.2.4 Finding addresses (making pointers)
    • 9.2.5 Extracting data (dereferencing pointers)
    • 9.2.6 Procedure parameters
  • 9.3 ARRAY Type
    • 9.3.1 Tables of data
    • 9.3.2 Accessing array data
    • 9.3.3 Array pointers
    • 9.3.4 Point to other elements
    • 9.3.5 Array procedure parameters
  • 9.4 OBJECT Type
    • 9.4.1 Example object
    • 9.4.2 Element selection and element types
    • 9.4.3 Amiga system objects
  • 9.5 LIST and STRING Types
    • 9.5.1 Normal strings and E-strings
    • 9.5.2 String functions
    • 9.5.3 Lists and E-lists
    • 9.5.4 List functions
    • 9.5.5 Complex types
    • 9.5.6 Typed lists
    • 9.5.7 Static data
  • 9.6 Linked Lists
• 10 More About Statements and Expressions
  • 10.1 Turning an Expression into a Statement
  • 10.2 Initialised Declarations
  • 10.3 Assignments
  • 10.4 More Expressions
    • 10.4.1 Side-effects
    • 10.4.2 BUT expression
    • 10.4.3 Bitwise AND and OR
    • 10.4.4 SIZEOF expression
  • 10.5 More Statements
    • 10.5.1 INC and DEC statements
    • 10.5.2 Labelling and the JUMP statement
    • 10.5.3 EXIT statement
    • 10.5.4 LOOP block
  • 10.6 Unification
  • 10.7 Quoted Expressions
    • 10.7.1 Evaluation
    • 10.7.2 Quotable expressions
    • 10.7.3 Lists and quoted expressions
  • 10.8 Assembly Statements
    • 10.8.1 Assembly and the E language
    • 10.8.2 Static memory
    • 10.8.3 Things to watch out for
• 11 E Built-In Constants, Variables and Functions
  • 11.1 Built-In Constants
  • 11.2 Built-In Variables
  • 11.3 Built-In Functions
    • 11.3.1 Input and output functions
    • 11.3.2 Intuition support functions
    • 11.3.3 Graphics functions
    • 11.3.4 Maths and logic functions
    • 11.3.5 System support functions
• 12 Modules
  • 12.1 Using Modules
  • 12.2 Amiga System Modules
  • 12.3 Non-Standard Modules
  • 12.4 Example Module Use
  • 12.5 Code Modules
• 13 Exception Handling
  • 13.1 Procedures with Exception Handlers
  • 13.2 Raising an Exception
  • 13.3 Automatic Exceptions
  • 13.4 Raise within an Exception Handler
• 14 Memory Allocation
  • 14.1 Static Allocation
  • 14.2 Deallocation of Memory
  • 14.3 Dynamic Allocation
  • 14.4 NEW and END Operators
    • 14.4.1 Object and simple typed allocation
    • 14.4.2 Array allocation
    • 14.4.3 List and typed list allocation
    • 14.4.4 OOP object allocation
• 15 Floating-Point Numbers
  • 15.1 Floating-Point Values
  • 15.2 Floating-Point Calculations
  • 15.3 Floating-Point Functions
  • 15.4 Accuracy and Range
• 16 Recursion
  • 16.1 Factorial Example
  • 16.2 Mutual Recursion
  • 16.3 Binary Trees
  • 16.4 Stack (and Crashing)
  • 16.5 Stack and Exceptions
• 17 Object Oriented E
  • 17.1 OOP Introduction
    • 17.1.1 Classes and methods
    • 17.1.2 Example class
    • 17.1.3 Inheritance
  • 17.2 Objects in E
  • 17.3 Methods in E
  • 17.4 Inheritance in E
  • 17.5 Data-Hiding in E
• 18 Introduction to the Examples
• 19 String Handling and I/O
• 20 Timing Expressions
• 21 Argument Parsing
  • 21.1 Any AmigaDOS
  • 21.2 AmigaDOS 2.0 (and above)
• 22 Gadgets, IDCMP and Graphics
  • 22.1 Gadgets
  • 22.2 IDCMP Messages
  • 22.3 Graphics
  • 22.4 Screens
• 23 Recursion Example
• A Common Problems
  • A.1 Assignment and Copying
  • A.2 Pointers and Memory Allocation
  • A.3 String and List Misuse
  • A.4 Initialising Data
  • A.5 Freeing Resources
  • A.6 Pointers and Dereferencing
  • A.7 Mathematics Functions
  • A.8 Signed and Unsigned Values
• B Other Information
  • B.1 Amiga E Versions
  • B.2 Further Reading
  • B.3 Amiga E Author
  • B.4 Guide Author
• E Language Index
• Main Index