Oh damn I was reminiscing about the computers I grew up with this morning, and the books that got me into programming. The Pete Norton book was the only programming book at the library and I used that in conjunction with debug.com!
And of course these books actually made me a programmer, because games.
Online since 1990 Yes! I started with Gopher. I do modern Web Component Development with technologies supported by **all** WHATWG partners (Apple, Google, Microsoft & Mozilla)
Oh damn I was reminiscing about the computers I grew up with this morning, and the books that got me into programming. The Pete Norton book was the only programming book at the library and I used that in conjunction with debug.com!
And of course these books actually made me a programmer, because games.
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I still have this one on my desk as a talisman
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