This was the book that single handedly got me into computers and programming.
It still captures my imagination today.
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@vidak I remember the game looked nothing like the cover haha
@vidak that would have won me over yeah.
Mine was a second hand copy of this, and a hand me down Atari (and, later, qbasic)
@vidak Mine was Stimulating Simulations
https://archive.org/details/Stimulating_Simulations_1977_C_William_Engel
and the Creative Computing books
https://archive.org/details/basic-computer-games-microcomputer-edition_202207
#basic #retrocomputing
@vidak I got this as a gift because I already was trying to get into computers and game programming, and I still have a copy <redacted> decades later. A couple other books were gifted me at the same time, but this is the one that got me actually going with C++. (So author Christopher Lampton probably owes me for a life of pain and despair, but anyway.)
@vidak The Usborne books inspired a generation of programmers! I've still got my ones from when I was a kid...
@quazarsamcoupe @vidak those were and are great books. they show you how you can provide great entertainment with very basic resources. the illustrations are great as well.
@quazarsamcoupe @vidak I still have three of these on my bookshelf today - my own originals from new!
@quazarsamcoupe @vidak @Wintermute_BBS still got 2 myself - Better Basic and Computer SpaceGames
@quazarsamcoupe @vidak I loved the artwork in these books and was always disappointed the actual game could never live up to them! 😁
I'm pretty sure you can download most of these as they made them free in PDF format on the official Usborne site.
The artwork was fantastic, especially in the Islands of Secrets and The Mystery of Silver Mountain to show the locations and characters in the adventures.
The books can be found here:
https://usborne.com/gb/books/computer-and-coding-books
@quazarsamcoupe@mastodonapp.uk @vidak@social.solarpunk.au Oh cool, I didn't realise there were others in this series until now! What a great piece of nostalgia, thank you 🙂
I got a copy of 'Introduction to Computing Programming' from a stall at my primary schools fair. Remember being absolutely fascinated with it at the time. Wish I had it still, along with a couple of other books that got lost on the way.
@quazarsamcoupe @vidak @thelastpsion You can download many of them as PDFs now; https://usborne.com/gb/books/computer-and-coding-books
@quazarsamcoupe @vidak Definitely where I started. I loved these books.