Oh damn I was reminiscing about the computers I grew up with this morning, and the books that got me into programming. The Pete Norton book was the only programming book at the library and I used that in conjunction with debug.com!
And of course these books actually made me a programmer, because games.
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Oh damn I was reminiscing about the computers I grew up with this morning, and the books that got me into programming. The Pete Norton book was the only programming book at the library and I used that in conjunction with debug.com!
And of course these books actually made me a programmer, because games.
rockpapershotgun.com/usborne-codin...
I still have this one on my desk as a talisman
Don't forget the monthly dose of code in SoftSide magazine.
How can young programmers learn to code without graphics like that?
SoftSide August 1981
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