Illustrating BASIC

Name: Illustrating BASIC
ISBN: 0521217040

by Donald Alcock · first published 1977

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Presents a popular computer language called BASIC and explains how to write simple programs in it.

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JackFr · Apr 9, 2019 · Recommends

…teletypewriter, with an attached paper tape punch and reader, and a phone-cradle modem, with which you could connect to the the PDP-8 at the local high school. Between this book https://www.amazon.com/Illustrating-Basic-Simple-Programming... and "BASIC Computer Games" my friend and I taught ourselves BASIC programming. It was about 42 years ago, but I remember to this day the initial astonishing joy of making the computer…
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kabdib · Aug 13, 2022 · Recommends

One of my early favorites was Donald Alcock's Illustrating BASIC https://books.google.com/books/about/Illustrating_BASIC.html... It's entirely hand-lettered. The author's afterword remarks that an attentive reader will notice the shakier lettering toward the end…
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szc · Sep 9, 2017 · Mentions

Yes! Touted on the cover as the "1st & last edition". There are two versions of page 111, with an apology (and an apology for the apology) if you thought the first was offensive. There is also Illustrating Basic (1977) and Illustrating FORTRAN (1982) by Donald Alcock from Cambridge University Press. [edited to fix publishing dates]
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