My first programming book

Yesterday I saw an entry in Juanjo’s blog talking about the book he started to learn programming with. And immediately I decided I had to look for my own start book.

It was when I was 7 years old, and my parents gave us an MSX computer (a Toshiba HX-10). One month later my father decided he wanted to implement software for his business (he’s got a clinic laboratory), and bought a very big book, MSX, Guía del programador y manual de referencia (The Complete MSX Programmers Guide, by T.Sato, P.Mapstone and I.Muriel, 1984).

Front of the book

It was the beginning. Since them my life was heavily tied to computer science. I’ve played many games in computers, written a lot of documents, pictures or even music. But the start was a BASIC program. This year I’ve done 20 years programming.