{"id":29,"date":"2007-01-08T17:15:09","date_gmt":"2007-01-08T15:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/2007\/01\/08\/my-first-programming-book\/"},"modified":"2007-01-08T17:15:09","modified_gmt":"2007-01-08T15:15:09","slug":"my-first-programming-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/2007\/01\/08\/my-first-programming-book\/","title":{"rendered":"My first programming book"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t remember exactly what my first programming book was, as it was many years ago (when I was about 12) and I keep a number of programming books from that time, but it was probably this one:<\/p>\n\n\n
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It was a Portuguese translation of “Creating Adventure Programs on the ZX Spectrum<\/a>“, originally by Peter Shaw and James Mortleman.<\/p>\n

It explained how to design and code text adventures<\/a>, one of the earliest genres of computer games that was about to disappear completely in the early 90s but fortunately is still alive thanks to the Internet (although it’s not a commercial genre anymore, obviously). There’s a number of free software programs for Unix-based systems to play classic and new games from that genre. Maybe one day I’ll post something about them \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

With this book I learned some interesting things about algorithms, text parsing and data structures. All the programs included in the book were written in Sinclair BASIC<\/a>, the first language that every Spectrum owner learned as the computer included an interpreter.<\/p>\n

However, it wouldn’t be fair to say that I learned programming thanks to any book, because without any doubt almost all of my early programming experiences began with MicroHobby<\/em>, a Spanish magazine dedicated to Sinclair computers. Thanks to the work of some enthusiastic fans who scanned all the issues, MicroHobby<\/em> is available online in the MicroHobby Forever<\/a> site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t remember exactly what my first programming book was, as it was many years ago (when I was about 12) and I keep a number of programming books from that time, but it was probably this one: It was a Portuguese translation of “Creating Adventure Programs on the ZX Spectrum“, originally by Peter Shaw […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-gpul","category-igalia","category-free-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/berto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}