There was an earlier version of this book -- less slick -- that you could buy from DEC. I had gotten a copy from my uncle.
At my public library we had a teletypewriter, with an attached paper tape punch and reader, and a phone-cradle modem, with which you could connect to the the PDP-8 at the local high school.
At my public library we had a teletypewriter, with an attached paper tape punch and reader, and a phone-cradle modem, with which you could connect to the the PDP-8 at the local high school.
Between this book https://www.amazon.com/Illustrating-Basic-Simple-Programming... and "BASIC Computer Games" my friend and I taught ourselves BASIC programming.
It was about 42 years ago, but I remember to this day the initial astonishing joy of making the computer do something new that I had thought of.