chgowiz ,
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That's an awesome cover!

Screenshot of the cover for the book "Your First Basic Program", by Rodnay Zaks, published in 1983. The cover art shows a fantasy meadow setting, with a green field, forest to the let. A small farm cottage is at the border of the forest and meadow. A large, many-spired castle is in the distance, clouded by faint mist. A road, made of a computer keyboard's keys stretches from the foreground and gently curves up to the castle.
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    eldadoinquieto ,
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    @chgowiz

    Indeed, it's a pity that no more covers like these nowadays.

    linux_mclinuxface ,
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    @chgowiz I wonder what year we lost this fantastical visualization of technology and computing. It seems like it started to taper around 87 and was gone by 1990z

    chgowiz OP ,
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    @linux_mclinuxface Seems like the commonplace tends to become mundane. :S

    pteryx ,
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    @chgowiz @linux_mclinuxface To be fair, the 1980s were a time when it was assumed that computer programming would be a skill for everyone, opening up endless possibilities... and yet it didn't ultimately turn out that way.

    chgowiz OP ,
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    @pteryx I think the microcomputer definitely opened the door to the number of programmers now compared to the 70s. Some progress. @linux_mclinuxface

    taichara ,
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    @chgowiz Hell yeah it is :D

    Ertain ,
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    @chgowiz Follow the yellow key road (I'm sure there's a song in there some where).

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