Beginning Programming for Dummies
After spending his first two post-college years working for a dead-end corporation that encouraged its employees to use euphemisms to disguise the fact
that they were manufacturing nuclear weapons with the potential to wipe out
most forms of life on the planet, Wallace Wang decided that his life was meant
to be spent doing something more exciting than existing in a corporate culture
that stifled freedom and democracy while building missiles ostensibly to
protect freedom and democracy. With the thought of escape in his mind, he
bought one of the first IBM personal computers on the market — and quickly
realized that the accompanying computer manuals were completely incomprehensible
