At 10:53 AM 6/13/99 GMT, Peter Turnbull wrote:
>On Jun 13, 19:05, Phil Guerney wrote:
>> Subject: Early BASIC "how-to" books
>> There must have been a thousand titles like "Learn BASIC for your ModelX
>> Home Computer".
>>
>> The earliest I have found is Copyright 1977 by Jerald Brown (DYMAX, CA)
>> called Instant Basic
>
>The earliest I have is "Illustrating BASIC" by Donald Alcock, also 1977.
I take it then that you are considering the "how-to" books in a different
catagory from the more general tutorial type of book?
Just as a data point, a quick prowl through the collection archive here
finds a tutorial on BASIC from G.E. with an original publication date of 1965.
-jim
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