Foreword
When I was about eight, I got a book from my step-dad. We had a PC at home, in fact, it was one of the first IBM PC clones that was made by Sperry, an old mainframe company that was entering into the new PC market. The book was made by IBM and it was a computer programming book aimed at kids to learn BASIC.
The book was illustrated with dragons, robots, and spaceships, and appropriately so. The world of programming was fantasy. It was a world where if you imagined it, you could turn it into reality. I went through that book from cover to cover multiple times, going through the examples and tweaking them to do all kinds of crazy stuff. But what really transformed me was when I finally embarked on my own projects from scratch.
My first ...
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