I loved those as a kid, there was also a magazine that would come every month with program listing that I would type up and then try to modify... It was a lot of fun and a great way to learn!<p>Sometimes I wonder how kids can learn programing by themselves now, there's no environment directly available and if their parents don't introduce it to them, I don't think they'll stumble that easily into it...<p>What was great at the time, is that any kid who had a computer or access to a computer would sooner or later play a bit with basic and try their hand at programming a bit