#usborne — Public Fediverse posts
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@GrantMeStrength I learned to code from Usborne as a pre-teen, and that really set the course of my career a decade later. Thirty or so years on, my kid pulled one of the books from our shelves (Usborne "Write your own adventure programmes for microcomputers") and we sat together and coded it up on a BBC emulator. I love Usborne, but I did have a strong desire to refactor that code! I had to keep explaining to my son how this or that bit of code wasn't best practice, and why. But that makes me sound ungrateful to them. I owe them a big debt of gratitude. Thanks #Usborne !
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@vk2gpu #Usborne has graciously provided many of their classic 1980s computer #books as freely downloadable PDFs, including the “Introduction to Computer #Programming: #BASIC for Beginners” in @GrantMeStrength’s photo: https://usborne.com/books/computer-and-coding-books
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20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers (don't forget the alt text).
15/20
The World of the Unknown: All About Monsters.
#20Books20Days #Bookstodon #Books #Monsters #Beasts #Usborne #Creatures
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@nixCraft I distinctly remember tweaking the type-in #BASIC games from early #1980s #Usborne books so that I would always win: https://usborne.com/us/books/computer-and-coding-books
Today that would be #RetroComputing.
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I had posted this on a previous account, but not here: the Usborne Computing Books of the 80’s are available as free downloads. They can be useful to think of things that kids could be doing today… and they’re also gorgeous and nostalgic at the same time:
https://usborne.com/gb/books/computer-and-coding-books
ps. If you access from elsewhere in the world, set your region to English/United Kingdom, and then click again.
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In this week's seven-year-old news, #Usborne have released their 1980's coding books as free PDFs: https://usborne.com/gb/books/computer-and-coding-books
I learned to code using these books using my Acorn Electron, in particular "Write Your Own Adventure Programs For Your Microcomputer". I retyped out the code again with my son on a BBC Micro emulator. It wouldn't pass modern coding standards, but was good fun. -
Custard tart, tea and a look ahead to the 20th century from 1979 to read. Depressing is how much climate change has radically altered things since these predictions. Much is pretty close though. #1970s #70s #2000s #00s #books #Bookstodon #futurism #SpaceAge #tech #technology #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Spaceships #Space #Robots #Usborne #21stCentury #ModernWorld #CustardTarts #PortigueseCustardTarts
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What happened to kids’ books about the future? Gray Stanback asks where are the children's books illustrating hopeful visions of the future. They were all the rage from the late 1970s.
#BoingBoing notes that #Usborne is reissuing 1979's "Usborne Book of the Future", a glimpse into a more optimistic age that some of us grew up in.
Kids need hope like adults need #solarpunk. We can get to a brighter future!
https://boingboing.net/2023/06/24/usborne-book-of-the-future-re-issued-in-uk.html
https://medium.com/illumination/what-happened-to-kids-books-about-the-future-16ec3efadd14
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eventually got round to setting up the spare room and unpacking all theboxes for it. which means I got to unpack this little lot of #80s #usborne computer books and eventually get them onto a shelf.
I've got most of the ones I want, but there are one or two I'm still to pick up but lately they have been listed for stupid prices on sites. still, not in a hurry, so I'll just keep my eyes peeled for bargains to add to the collection
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Still have all of these #Usborne #Supernatural #Horror books but I think this was my favourite
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A Lockdown Brightened By A Library Of Vintage Usborne Books - Lockdown is boring. No, let’s emphasize that, lockdown is really boring. Walking for exercise is muc... - https://hackaday.com/2021/03/22/a-lockdown-brightened-by-a-library-of-vintage-usborne-books/ #hackadaycolumns #retrocomputing #classichacks #machinecode #usborne #basic #books
