Why are old textbooks and manuals so boring? I'm not asking for w(p)gtr bullshite, but these books are written in such a matter-of-fact way it makes them more difficult to follow.
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Take a look at the manual of a very early personal computer, the Altair 8800: http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/altair/d/88opman.pdf
In a mere 100 (typewritten) pages, the operator manual gives a complete description of the device and is enough for a reader who don't even know what a computer is to learn programming.
Nowadays, complete noobs get some shite like le w(P)GtR as an introduction to computer programming and will never have the slightest clue of what a computer is