XNA Game Studio 4.0 Programming: Developing for Windows® Phone 7 and Xbox 360®

Foreword

I got my first computer in 1989, when I was 13. It was an Oric-1 with a 1-MHz CPU and 48k RAM. It didn’t come with any games, but when you switched it on, up came a screen that said:

Ready

It was ready to be programmed, and the manual dived straight into teaching me how to do this:

First the bad news. ORIC doesn’t understand English. But now the good news. You don’t have to learn a complicated electronic language, because ORIC speaks a language called BASIC. If your machine is switched on, we’ll see how easy this is. Type:

PRINT "HELLO"

and then press the [RETURN] key.

Wow! I just made my first program, and the computer did exactly ...