[royjacobs]

These books were great. What especially captured my imagination were not just the drawings, but the fact that every listing would be prefaced by a print-out of a run of the game. This made it really easy to see what the program was about (entertaining enough by itself) but it would also allow me to map whatever the game was doing with the BASIC listing next to it. This was kind of like using a debugger to step through the program and it was a really neat way to learn about control flow and program structure.