Usborne 1980s computer programming books for kids become free downloads
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#2The free downloads (PDF) are on the right-side of the page. Some classics include:
- Machine Code for Beginners
- Introduction to Computer Programming, BASIC for beginners
- Write your own Fantasy/Adventure Games on your microcomputerRe: Usborne 1980s computer programming books for kids become free downloads
#3Awesome.... I have a bunch of these sitting on my bookshelf :)
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#4Oh wow! I remember borrowing these from the library when I was a kid! Awesome!
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#5That's incredible. Usbourne books including some of those filled my shelves as a kid along with Steve Jackson and Ian Livingston's fighting fantasy series. Nostalgia is cheap these days. I'll be buying some Usbourne for my children soon...
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#6These are fantastic. Just browsed through the fantasy game book, and the illustrations are lovely. Especially like the comments done as goblins with speech bubbles beside the listings :-)
I missed the days of BASIC that required line numbers, but this reminds me fondly of my first programming class, in QBASIC on old 386 DOS clones
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#7It's great enough that they've released them, but I love how they've used them as a draw to the page where they present their new/current computing books by presenting both on the same page instead of hiding them away somewhere.
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#8That's incredible. Usbourne books including some of those filled my shelves as a kid along with Steve Jackson and Ian Livingston's fighting fantasy series. Nostalgia is cheap these days. I'll be buying some Usbourne for my children soon...
And I'm not finding the source code any easier to read. Thank God we moved on from one char variable names.
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#9These books were beautiful. They gathered your attention and fantasy even before playing and they were inspiring. I obviously admire the technical quality of today's games, but remember what the power of imagination was able to do when i was playing 8bit games in the '80s!
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#10I can't tell you how much I loved these books growing up. I also own the collections of their puzzle books and wish they'd reprint their ghost puzzle collections.