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One of my early favorites was Donald Alcock's Illustrating BASIC https://books.google.com/books/about/Illustrating_BASIC.html?id=i508AAAAIAAJ https://books.goo
by kabdib 4y ago
One of my early favorites was Donald Alcock's Illustrating BASIC
https://books.google.com/books/about/Illustrating_BASIC.html?id=i508AAAAIAAJ 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 of the book.
He wrote a couple other books on programming (I think he did Illustrating Pascal). It's a quirky approach, but very friendly and unintimidating compared to vanilla textbooks.
- s1mon 4y agoI came here to ask if anyone could remember this weird handlettered book on BASIC which illustrated all kinds of concepts including linked lists using arrays of boxes and arrows. I believe this must have been it unless there’s another book that was like this. I vividly remember as a kid reading all these different books about computers and programming. I found that I had to read a bunch of books in order to find the right mix of explanations that gelled in my mind. Instead of reading one or two books on BASIC and getting frustrated, I probably read a dozen. This one really appealed to my visual brain.
- wernsey 4y agoIt's also on Archive.org. I went there to check it out. Very nice. https://archive.org/details/cambridge-university-press-illustrating-basic-a-simple-programming-language_202110/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/cambridge-university-press-illus...