27 May
2016
27 May
'16
11:36 a.m.
I can suggest "Instant BASIC: Freeze-dried Computer Programming: Jerald R.
Brown" as a good kids entry-level text. Like numerous other 1980s era DIY
computer books, it's probably available for free download from archive.org.
I also have a spare copy.
And BASIC is great, but as soon as the kid grasps the concepts, move him to
Perl or Python ASAP. Basic -> Perl is very easy, heck you can even use line
numbers if you want.. and it's a far more useful language in the modern
environment.
On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 12:49 PM, william degnan <billdegnan at gmail.com>
wrote:
Trombetta wrote a book
"BASIC for students using the IBM PC"
On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 1:29 PM, Ali <cctalk at ibm51xx.net> wrote:
So somewhat OT - I've setup an 8 year old w/
an IBM PC XT w/ CGA. To say
he
is less than impressed is understating things :).
However, I am
determined
that he will learn basic computer terminology,
architecture, history
(i.e.
how we got here) and at least get his feet wet
with programming by
learning
BASIC this summer.
Apparently teaching is not my strong suite - while I can talk about a
larger
number of the above topics, especially at his level, organizing them in a
way to make sense is the problem. I was wondering if anyone could
recommend
a good book that gets the basic stuff out of the
way (what is the CPU,
memory, storage, etc. what are different the parts called, etc.) and
maybe
another one that teaches an intro to BASIC
written for a very young
reader?
It would be nice if the book is in the PD or at
least available as a PDF
that way he can read it on his Kindle. However, I am not averse to
buying a
physical new (or used book) either.
Thanks.
-Ali
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