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People of a certain age (and geographic location) will remember the Usborne Write Your Own Adventure Programs[0] book that taught kids the intricacies of string parsing and data driven programming in basic. I used that book to write several adventures of increasing complexity during my early teens.

[0] https://sheep.horse/2017/2/usborne_computer_books.html (self link)




Your link to the Usborne books is dead—this works:

https://usborne.com/us/books/computer-and-coding-books




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