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A bit off topic... When I was a child, we had at home a "big yellow book" (mind you, I was 4 or 5 at the time, so maybe not that big) that taught about how comp
by dr_zoidberg 5y ago
A bit off topic... When I was a child, we had at home a "big yellow book" (mind you, I was 4 or 5 at the time, so maybe not that big) that taught about how computers worked in the first part and in the second part had Logo and BASIC games you could type into your PC.
Since it was a book for children, it was full of illustrations but it went into some details (or maybe I'm adding stuff into it in retrospect). The main protagonists were a boy and a girl, with a pet (maybe a dog?). I think I remember the boy having some kind of curly/fluffy hair. I remember the eyes of the characters were distinctive, but can't really recall _how_.
Any idea or pointers about finding this book? I don't remember anything about the title, author, publisher, etc.
- DonHopkins 5y agoWas it "BASIC COMPUTER GAMES" from Creative Computing? I loved that book! (Probably not, from your description, but it was very big and very yellow and had a lot of games you could type in.) https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/624341.Basic_Computer_Games https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/624341.Basic_Computer... https://ia902805.us.archive.org/1/items/basic-computer-games-microcomputer-edition/BASICComputerGamesMicrocomputerEdition.pdf https://ia902805.us.archive.org/1/items/basic-computer-games...
- dr_zoidberg 5y agoIt's not. The drawings were a bit more cartoony with "big heads and small bodies". The book also had a lot of Logo, which we couldn't really use because our computer back then only had a BASIC interpreter. Thanks for the suggetion though :)
- Miiko 5y agoA "big yellow book" I had / still have with a boy and a girl - and lot of pictures - is this one (it's in Russian, though, you may had different one): https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1377439595l/18373559.jpg https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.... French original book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/122322._quoi_r_vent_les_robots_ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/122322._quoi_r_vent_les_... Does it look familiar?
- dr_zoidberg 5y agoNo, but thanks for the suggestion. I should probably just draw the characters as best I could and head over to reddit or something.