How I Learned to Program (and Why That Matters to You)

When I was a kid, I copied computer game programs out of books. This was a long time ago, so I bought books with nothing but computer code, and typed it into my computer. It took a while, and I had no idea what I was doing at first.

Eventually, I started to recognize things. And then I started to change some of the programs—little things at first—to see what happened. Then I started making bigger changes. Eventually I got pretty good at it and could even write my own programs.

I hope that this book will let you do the same, but with one important difference: I’ll explain what’s going on so you won’t have to guess quite as much.

Get 3D Game Programming for Kids, 2nd Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.