{"id":9397,"date":"2016-02-14T22:21:41","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T22:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9397"},"modified":"2016-02-14T23:26:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T23:26:48","slug":"nostalgia-is-typing-everything-exactly-as-you-see-it-printed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/02\/nostalgia-is-typing-everything-exactly-as-you-see-it-printed\/","title":{"rendered":"Nostalgia is typing everything exactly as you see it printed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Usborne computing have released two new books for children to learn about computers and programming (they are Key Stage 1 level, if that means anything to you). &#8216;<em>Lift The Flap Computers and Coding<\/em>&#8216; and &#8216;<em>Coding For Beginners Using Scratch<\/em>&#8216; may be popular in school libraries?in the next year or two, but it&#8217;s what Usborne released for free download next to these titles that excites me.<\/p>\n<p>The full range of their early 1980s Computer Guides&#8230; some of the books that started me programming on the ZX Spectrum. Including the classic &#8216;<em>Computer Spacegames<\/em>&#8216;, which was the?first of the guidebooks I?remember.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usborne.com\/catalogue\/feature-page\/computer-and-coding-books.aspx\">The full collection is here<\/a>. A more civilised ?time with better artwork and lots of &#8216;guess a number&#8217; apps!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usborne computing have released two new books for children to learn about computers and programming (they are Key Stage 1 level, if that means anything to you). &#8216;Lift The Flap Computers and Coding&#8216; and &#8216;Coding For Beginners Using Scratch&#8216; may be popular in school libraries?in the next year or two, but it&#8217;s what Usborne released for free download next to these titles that excites me. The full range of their early 1980s Computer Guides&#8230; some of the books that started me programming on the ZX Spectrum. Including the classic &#8216;Computer Spacegames&#8216;, which was the?first of the guidebooks I?remember. The full<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25,3],"tags":[5639,831,292,5640,578],"class_list":["post-9397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","category-personal-thoughts-and-messages","tag-computer-spacegames","tag-download","tag-pdf","tag-usborne","tag-zx-spectrum","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-2rz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9398,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9397\/revisions\/9398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}