http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/nov/04/playpower-80s-computing-21st-century
I taught myself BASIC and then 6502 assembly language on a Commodore VIC-20 with COMPUTE! magazine back in the day. But what I really liked was the incredibly friendly little manual, such as this priceless advice for the BASIC prompt: "hit Enter a couple of times to clear it out." Any engineer would have insisted (correctly) that this was unnecessary... but that anonymous manual writer was a psychologist; s/he knew that a computing novice nervous about "harming" the machine could quickly gain confidence with that little tic. Sean. _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
