September 2026
Beginner
256 pages
7h 31m
English
‘Syntax Error.’ That was my first memory of coding back when computers had 16KB of memory to play with. Having written a few hundred lines of code with my six-year-old sister over a number of hours, we typed in the command of promise, ‘RUN’, and then were delivered the crushing blow of a mistaken entry. The computer language was ‘BASIC’ by name and basic by nature and thus it did not highlight which line (or lines) contained the problem. So, painstakingly, we reviewed each of the several hundred lines of code we had transcribed from a programming book. We were promised a rudimentary game where a capital ‘A’ was your on-screen global laser defence system ...
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