[Coco] Amazon.com: Sherlock, 12 Puzzles, and Elementary JavaScript: The Fun Way to Learn JavaScript eBook: William Barden: Books

[Richard E Crislip]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2015 16:21:53 -0600
Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:

> William Barden popped by the CoCo Facebook page recently and
> mentioned his new book on JavaScript:
> 
> http://www.amazon.com/Sherlock-12-Puzzles-Elementary-JavaScript-ebook/dp/B00QOT0VRS/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1421187476&sr=1-1
> 
> I am checking it out now, and thought I would share this with the
> list... He actually starts out talking about his TRS-80 days and,
> though he doesn't mention CoCo by name, he mentions his famous "Pi to
> 10,000 digits" Rainbow article. Here's the opening paragraph:
> 
> "Not too many years ago I wrote a series of books for Radio Shack
> computers. You may not be familiar with such computers as the
> original Radio Shack TRS- 80 (“Tandy Radio Shack- 80”) and the Radio
> Shack Color Computer, but they were 1980s powerhouse personal
> computers that came out about the same time as IBM brought out their
> PC and Apple introduced their first computers. The great thing about
> these computers is that they were accessible . They had a built- in
> version of a computer language called BASIC, and it was that. It was
> also a fairly powerful computer language. I once computed pi to
> 10,000 digits on one of these early PCs and wrote an article about
> it."
> 
> Cool, huh?
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> 

Already on my Kindle reader 8-)