Need Rec: Book to teach about computers and BASIC at an eight year old level

[ben]

On 5/27/2016 2:15 PM, Swift Griggs wrote:

>
> I learned ASM as a kid (I've never become that great at it, but I get by).
> As a child, I had so few people around who knew anything about computers,
> nobody was there to say "that's too hard". I had a book that came with a
> timex 1500 my mom got at a garage sale. I just picked it up and started
> doing examples.
>
> -Swift
>
But back then you could find the BARE hardware... with
the latest chips how do your get there?
Ben.