What Was Your First Programming Book?

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What Was Your First Programming Book?

Post icon  Posted 30 April 2009 - 10:51 AM

What was the first programming book you ever had? Mine was a book on QBasic.
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Re: What Was Your First Programming Book?

Posted 30 April 2009 - 11:06 AM

Learning the Basic programming language or something similar to that.
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Posted 30 April 2009 - 11:22 AM

My first was Learning Perl - it's good and dog-eared now, for all that I never open it anymore.
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Posted 30 April 2009 - 11:30 AM

A book on Visual Basic 6, forgot the name, its is around the shelves somewhere, if I see it I will post the name.
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Posted 30 April 2009 - 11:38 AM

Mine was QBasic too.

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Posted 30 April 2009 - 11:44 AM

SAMS Learn Teach Yourself C++ in 21 days.

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Posted 30 April 2009 - 12:05 PM

Sams Teach Yourself Java in 24 Hours
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Re: What Was Your First Programming Book?

Posted 30 April 2009 - 12:30 PM

Programming in Lua Second Edition
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Re: What Was Your First Programming Book?

Posted 30 April 2009 - 12:37 PM

A hard bound book on qbasic and adventure games (think text based zork). I used that to make a videogame for my Computer Merit badge in boyscouts. I don't think I ever returned it.
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Posted 30 April 2009 - 01:16 PM

The book of hard knocks. Really though I just used all programming tutorials to learn for the longest time, I think my first programming book was just some shitty C++ book like "C++ Programming For Absolute Beginners."
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Re: What Was Your First Programming Book?

Posted 30 April 2009 - 01:36 PM

http://en.wikipedia....Language_(book)
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Re: What Was Your First Programming Book?

Posted 30 April 2009 - 01:47 PM

View Posterik.price, on 30 Apr, 2009 - 12:30 PM, said:

Programming in Lua Second Edition



My most recent purchase--tis' an excellent book.
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Re: What Was Your First Programming Book?

Posted 30 April 2009 - 02:46 PM

Mine was "An Introduction to Programming Using Visual Basic 5.0" and I still have it on my shelf
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Re: What Was Your First Programming Book?

Posted 30 April 2009 - 03:19 PM

I do believe mine was on QBasic as well
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Re: What Was Your First Programming Book?

Posted 30 April 2009 - 03:30 PM

View PostKYA, on 30 Apr, 2009 - 04:47 PM, said:

View Posterik.price, on 30 Apr, 2009 - 12:30 PM, said:

Programming in Lua Second Edition



My most recent purchase--tis' an excellent book.

Tis indeed. Haven't had much time to do much programming at all lately so I didn't get past the first few chapters. :angry:
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