BASIC Fun: Computer Games, Puzzles, and Problems Children Can Write

by Susan Drake Lipscomb, Margaret Ann Zusnich

Introduces the fundamentals of computer programming using the BASIC programming language. Includes descriptions and listings of programs designed to amuse and challenge users.

Genres: Computers

176 pages, Paperback

Published July 1, 1982

Reviews

[James Glasgow · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nostalgia warning! In the spring of 1987 my family bought our first computer, an IBM PC II AD, This was a computer with an 8088 processor, 512 KB of RAM, a Seagate ST-225 20 MB Hard Drive, and a green and black monochrome screen. Being a kid I wanted to play computer games, but having just purchased a new computer the family really didn't have the funds to start buying computer games. My mother, who was working on her teaching degree, came home one day from the library with a copy of this book. My sisters and I spent that summer typing in the games from this book into the computer so we would have some games to play.

After we got the games working I starting looking through the code to try to figure out how the games worked, then I started tinkering with the code, then I started trying to write my own programs, by the time I was 14 (6 years later) I was finally taking my first programming class (using Basic). Since then I have dabbled in Pascal, QBasic, Java, C, PHP, Javascript, Python, Bash, Ruby, and others. I have made programming my profession for the last 19 years. It all started with this book.