One of my favourite programming books for its anyone-can-get-into-programming optimism and for including the timeless advice "Remember, when you are trying to w

One of my favourite programming books for its anyone-can-get-into-programming optimism and for including the timeless advice "Remember, when you are trying to work out a game, not to include anything which your computer won't be able to do" (p38). It's also amazing that this short volume supports (at least) 8 dialects of BASIC. Much respect to the authors for writing mostly-portable code and then tweaking and testing it 8 times.