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SyneRyder · 2015-04-18 · Original thread
"All About Computers" by Helen Davies & Graham Round: http://www.amazon.com/All-About-Computers-Helen-Davies/dp/08...

My parents got it for me when I was very young, and (if memory serves correctly) it had some program listings in BASIC in the back of the book. I must've typed them into our Apple IIe computer and started to learn programming by modifying the code.

[As for being introduced to C, the book "Using C" by Clint Hicks from Que Publishing is what helped me get started and get my head around the concept of pointers. I have tons of programming books now, but that one has a very distinct crack down the spine from regular use.]

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