{"id":153,"date":"2006-06-05T00:04:19","date_gmt":"2006-06-04T23:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/2006\/06\/05\/my-first-book-about-programming\/"},"modified":"2006-06-05T00:04:19","modified_gmt":"2006-06-04T23:04:19","slug":"my-first-book-about-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/2006\/06\/05\/my-first-book-about-programming\/","title":{"rendered":"My first programming book"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"B\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/files\/2006\/06\/IMG_8105-small.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday, while looking for other things in my partent&#8217;s place, I found a book I had not seen for a very long time: &#8220;<a title=\"Basic para ni\u00f1os\" href=\"http:\/\/csbs.csusm.edu\/csbs\/www.book.book_detail?p_name_0=621&amp;lang=SP\">Basic para ni\u00f1os<\/a>&#8221; (Basic for children) written in Spanish by Sof\u00eda Watt and Miguel Mangada. I was 8 when I got it as the text book for an optional complementary course at primary school, two hours per week, where I was the only one under 12. I was too small and did not manage to learn more than the simple concepts at that time, but it was a lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p>More than two decades have gone away, I have not programmed in Basic for a long time now, but when I saw it again, I realized that probably that small and simple book had quite a lot of influence in what I decided to do during the last decade&#8230; study computer science at the university, try to be part of the free software moviment, do my Ph.D. in software engineering, create <a title=\"Igalia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.igalia.com\">Igalia<\/a> with a group of colleagues from <a title=\"UDC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.udc.es\">UDC<\/a>&#8230; and it will probably have in what it is still to come \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, while looking for other things in my partent&#8217;s place, I found a book I had not seen for a very long time: &#8220;Basic para ni\u00f1os&#8221; (Basic for children) written in Spanish by Sof\u00eda Watt and Miguel Mangada. I was 8 when I got it as the text book for an optional complementary course at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/2006\/06\/05\/my-first-book-about-programming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My first programming book<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freesoftware","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.igalia.com\/juanjo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}