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

[J Arcane]

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
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> <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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