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More software development than CS, I was waaaaay too young to understand anything about CS but making computers do my bidding was very interesting. Microelectr

More software development than CS, I was waaaaay too young to understand anything about CS but making computers do my bidding was very interesting. Microelectronics and the Personal Computer Scientific American 237, no. 3 (1977)(Sep.): 230-244. scans at https://www.digibarn.com/collections/books/xerox-parc-1970-80/alto-article/ https://www.digibarn.com/collections/books/xerox-parc-1970-8... Programming Your Own Computer, in Science Year, The World Book Annual Science Supplement, 183-195. (Chicago, Ill., 1978). Fortran Coloring Book https://archive.org/details/9780262610261 https://archive.org/details/9780262610261 BASIC Cookbook https://archive.org/details/Basic_Cookbook_1978_Tab_Books https://archive.org/details/Basic_Cookbook_1978_Tab_Books and later, in 1984, the Smalltalk-80: The Language and Its Implementation (the Blue Book) http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/BlueBook/Bluebook.pdf http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/BlueBook/Bluebook.... If you think you see a theme here, you would be right.

pjmorris 5y ago
Despite high interest in learning to program, I was confused and bored in my first (FORTRAN) programming course. Browsing at the local bookstore I found 'The FORTRAN Coloring Book' and took it home. Kaufman's approach unlocked some kind of door for me, and the effort of going to find my own resources did as well. Forty years on, 'The Fortran Coloring Book' sits on the shelf next to 'Software Tools in Pascal' (same bookstore a few months later) and many of the other books listed in this thread (e.g. TAOCP, SICP, UPE, OSTEP.)
actually_a_dog 5y ago
You would probably appreciate How to Design and Build Your Own Custom Robot by David L. Heiserman. I don't think the text is available online, but you can find it very cheaply for sale. I remember checking this book out from the library a few times when I was a kid.

pjmorris 5y ago

Despite high interest in learning to program, I was confused and bored in my first (FORTRAN) programming course. Browsing at the local bookstore I found 'The FORTRAN Coloring Book' and took it home. Kaufman's approach unlocked some kind of door for me, and the effort of going to find my own resources did as well. Forty years on, 'The Fortran Coloring Book' sits on the shelf next to 'Software Tools in Pascal' (same bookstore a few months later) and many of the other books listed in this thread (e.g. TAOCP, SICP, UPE, OSTEP.)

actually_a_dog 5y ago

You would probably appreciate How to Design and Build Your Own Custom Robot by David L. Heiserman. I don't think the text is available online, but you can find it very cheaply for sale. I remember checking this book out from the library a few times when I was a kid.