Design Lessons from the Amazing 1980s Books That Taught Kids to Code

1982 was a big year for early computing, with the release of the Commodore 64 and the first computer with a graphical user interface, Apple’s Lisa, the following year. Computers were miniaturizing fast, and making their way to regular consumers even faster. The same year, a U.K. publishing house called Usborne published the first in a series of how-to books aimed at children. The topic? Computer programming, as illustrated by an army of robots and mechanical cockroaches (the "bugs!").
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