Books according to which we taught programming in childhood and we will teach children

When I went to visit Robokurs (they teach children 7–13 years old to programming and robotics), I saw a collection of rare programming books and remembered the past, the 286th without a hard disk, BASIC from the RAM, and so on.



I was in the eighth and from a classmate I learned that there is a “Regional Station for Young Technicians” (KSYUT), where, in addition to cutting out a cord model aircraft with a jigsaw, there is also an innovative programming room. Signed up there. There were the first network battles in NETWARS, and the first pornographic picture, and the war for the password of the main administrator. Practically there were no adequate books, especially on my beloved BASIC (only Programmer and another rosy book, from where I learned what an array is and what can be done with it).

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I want to ask the hack readers for which books they took the first steps in programming.



Under the cut there is a brief overview of one modern and several old school Soviet books on robotics and programming for children from the collection of teachers. (The bonus is a review of manga on electricity .) And in the comments - your first books.

Programming for kids

The “Myth” publishing house has released a high-quality picture book on the study of SCRATCH and Python. Fun stylization / pixelation, high-quality printing, an affordable presentation. I don’t know about grandma, but mom and dad can finally learn python.







In my opinion, a very suitable approach: if you want to learn how to program, write your game. That is what the authors teach throughout the book.



I think it's better to see once:

Travel to the country of robots

The peculiarity of the book is in a huge number of explanatory references to key points in the history of automatic systems - from Neanderthal traps to mammoths, Jacquard maps, Watt regulator, Foucault's pendulum, etc., to Babbie’s car, Wiener Ashby’s works, spacecraft, ENIAC, BESM. The author looks into the future, analyzing the work of Azimov and Lem.

Programm

Oh, my first book. Written by the French in 1985, translated into Russian in 1990.







Here is my second book on programming:







But the sense of school was not enough for her, but it was useful at the university.

Robert

1975 cute Estonian art book about the adventures of a robot

Computer Basics

The book is simultaneously from Palo Alto (this is Silicon Valley, if that) and Boston (this is the second Silicon Valley).

The book has many tasks and prog on BASIC, there are control questions. For home schooling in those days - a cool book.

Language and computer

The book of 1989 for those who are older.







The book tells about the semantics, the conceptual core, phonosemnyku. What is the difference between phrosemantic aura “vrobar” and “luvin”?

What do robots dream about

Again the French. What I particularly liked was the comic format. And hardcore in some moments.



Do robots dream of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox?

And finally - MANGA

Than I was bribed by the teachers of “Robokurs”, that they monitor not only modern books and methods of programming and robotics, but also rare Soviet books and foreign publications:







What is your first book on programming?

PS

If you have a little boy of 7-13 years old, then you are here: Robokurs: we teach children programming and robotics