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

Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 9, 2016 @11:57AM 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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So that's the book I lost for "Haunted House" by UnknownSoldier · 2016-02-09 12:56 · Score: 3, Interesting

I remember typing in the "Haunted House" by hand from Write your own adventure programs for your microcomputer"
The games I wrote never looked like anything the pretty illustrations -- I imagine they helped sell the book. :-)