Believe it or not, there's a book along those lines, but using BASIC:

https://www.amazon.com/Elementary-Chronicled-Learning-Comput...

They just don't make CS books like that any more.

Only loosely related but for lovers of weird programming texts, there's a bizarre gem called "Elementary Basic - Learning To Program Your Computer In Basic With Sherlock Holmes" by Henry Ledgard and Andrew Singer.

http://www.amazon.com/Elementary-Chronicled-Learning-Compute...