<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Pleased to announce Michael Halvorson, Code Nation: Personal Computing and the Learn to Program Movement in America (ACM Books 2020). Available in hard/paper at <a href="http://Amazon.com" class="">Amazon.com</a>, <a href="http://BN.com" class="">BN.com</a>, <a href="http://Bookshop.org" class="">Bookshop.org</a> and (through end of June) available for **gratis download** at <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3368274" class="">https://doi.org/10.1145/3368274</a> either PDF or EPUB.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Halvorson covers some familiar terrain in the rise of personal-computing programming in the 1960-70s — lots on BASIC, counterculture, software engineering — but also entirely new material on FORTRAN, Logo, MS Visual Basic, MS-DOS, MS Windows, Mac applications, “C” — commercial and application program development. Michael worked at Microsoft Press for years, and attends to the many varied publications from personal computing. Background for learn-to-program movement today!<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Check out the many color illustrations: pretty much a first for the history titles from ACM Books.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In months to come, look for these ACM Books history titles going into production — Dick van Lente on Prophets of Computing: Visions of Society Transformed by Computing. . . Kim Tracy on software history . . . Jim Pelkey and Andy Russell on early networking industry . . . .</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best regards, Tom Misa (<span class="css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x css-901oao r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">ACM Books </span><a title="http://books.acm.org/board#tab17" href="https://t.co/sZWSEcgMkP?amp=1" target="_blank" dir="ltr" role="link" data-focusable="true" class="css-18t94o4 r-bcqeeo css-16my406 r-1loqt21 r-qvutc0 css-4rbku5 r-1qd0xha css-901oao r-ad9z0x r-1n1174f" rel=" noopener noreferrer"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-16my406 r-qvutc0 r-1qd0xha r-bcqeeo css-901oao r-hiw28u r-ad9z0x">http://</span>books.acm.org/board#tab17</a>)</div><div class="">==========================</div></body></html>