Elementary Basic
as chronicled by John H. Watson
by Henry F. Ledgard, Andrew Singer · first published 1982
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Only loosely related but for lovers of weird programming texts, there's a bizarre gem called "Elementary Basic - Learning To Program Your Computer In Basic With Sherlock Holmes" by Henry Ledgard and Andrew Singer. http://www.amazon.com/Elementary-Chronicled-Learning-Compute...
on “Sherlock Holmes Debugging” ↗…Prolog and Erlang. [2] "LISP LORE: A Guide To Programming The Lisp Machine", published in 1987 and is an intro to programming on Lisp Machines. I found a mint condition copy at Goodwill for $1. [3] "Elementary BASIC: Learning To Program Your Computer In Basic With Sherlock Holmes" published in 1982. Write BASIC code to help Sherlock and Watson solve cases. They just don't make computer books like this any more.…
on “Show HN: The rarest tech books and docs you've probably never read” ↗One more quirky computing book: "Elementary Basic, as chronicled by John H. Watson" (1982) https://archive.org/details/elementarybasica00ledg/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/elementarybasica0000unse/mode/2u... (They're amongst the archive.org…
on “Quirky computing books” ↗4 is also available on the archive! https://openlibrary.org/books/OL4272985M/Elementary_Basic
on “Show HN: The rarest tech books and docs you've probably never read” ↗