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

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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Re:tom

[silentcoder]

This.

I'm sure the vast majority of nerds are decent human beings - but misogynistic assholes like him make me doubt that some times... must be the significant minority of libertarian-leaning randroids among the nerd community. Nothing guarantees turning into a terrible person quite like thinking Ayn Rand was right about something. Frankly - her belief that smoking is proof of man's superiority over fire and that scientific evidence linking smoking to cancer is a "communist conspiracy" was exactly typical of the level of her insight into anything at all. And I have utterly digressed - I'm sorry, I just really *hope* it's the randroids who breed that part of the community and not representative of a deeper undercurrent of misogyny and lack of respect for women and other marginalized peoples.

The flames are about to start, bring it on. Flaming this opinion - only proves it right. I'm also pretty sure I'll get a flamebait or a troll mod or two - I am just as certain they are not deserved so I'll accept it as the price of integrity. At least it's not off-topic for the specific thread :P