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Updating The Single Most Influential Book of the BASIC Era

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In a way, these two books are responsible for my entire professional career. For many of us, if we wanted the computer to do anything, we had to type in entire programs from books like 101 Basic Computer Games , by hand. He specified type, took photos, got books of "clip art," drew illustrations, and laid out boards.

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