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Uborne Children's Books Release For Free Computer Books From the '80s (usborne.com)

Posted by timothy on from the good-on-'em dept.

martiniturbide writes: To promote some new computer coding books for kids, Uborne Children's Books has put online 15 of its children books from the '80s to learn how to code games. The books are available for free in PDF format and has samples to create your game for Commodore 64, VIC 20, Apple, TRS 80, Spectrum and other. Maybe you read some of them like "Machine Code for Beginners" or "Write your own Adventure Program for MicroComputers." Should other publishers also start to make their '80s and '90s computer books available for free?

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  1. Usborne by Drantin · · Score: 4, Informative

    I know editors don't actually do any editing, but come on...

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  2. Re:Usborne by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 3, Informative

    I actually read that initially as "Unborn Children's Books", and thought this was about audio books meant to play through those womb speakers.

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  3. Re:Yes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    These books were great! As a kid, I had the Computer Battlegames one, which had very simplistic but easy to understand programs, and the Write Your Own Adventure Games one with the Haunted House. They did a good job explaining how to write the game, how the parser works, how to set the level up in memory, etc. Much better than other books that had program listings only, where you didn't have a clue what anything did. Nice artwork too.