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

Aaron manney at gmail.com
Wed Jan 14 17:31:12 EST 2015


Bought it last night for a little under 4 GBP.  Haven't been able to start
reading it yet, but thought I'd support someone from the heyday of the
CoCo.  :)

-A.

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 10:24 PM, J Arcane <jarcane at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm reminded of Ledgard and Singer's brilliant Elementary Basic:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Elementary-Chronicled-Learning-Computer-Sherlock/dp/0394524233/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1421274106&sr=1-4&keywords=elementary+basic
>
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 7:43 PM, abqpenmaster <abqpenmaster at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I got the Kindle version also,  only $4.99.  Pretty entertaining
> >
> >
> > Albuquerque,  NM USA
> >
> > <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Richard E
> Crislip <
> > rcrislip at neo.rr.com> </div><div>Date:01/14/2015  10:40 AM  (GMT-07:00)
> > </div><div>To: coco at maltedmedia.com </div><div>Subject: Re: [Coco]
> > Amazon.com: Sherlock, 12 Puzzles,
> >   and Elementary JavaScript: The Fun Way to Learn JavaScript eBook:
> >   William Barden: Books </div><div>
> > </div>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?
> > > -
> > > Allen Huffman - PO Box 22031 - Clive IA 50325 - 515-999-0227
> > > (vmail/TXT only) http://www.subethasoftware.com -
> > > https://www.facebook.com/subethasoftware Sent from my iPad.
> > >
> > > P.S. Since 4/15/2014, I have earned over $660 in Amazon gift cards!
> > > Sign up using my link and I get credit:
> > > http://swagbucks.com/refer/allenhuffman
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Already on my Kindle reader 8-)
> >
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