wjb@burl.UUCP (Bill Buie) (08/15/84)
An office buddy has been transferred, and I've inherited his collection of Electronics magazines. Pete was a hardware jock. I prefer software hobbying. Looking through his stuff, I saw a lot of how-to type home projects, and thought "Are there any equivalent magazines for software?" What I mean is a magazine that regularly features articles that flowchart useful algorithms for the home hacker. (For instance, Pete once gave me a series of articles on how to write your own FORTH interpreter). How about a magazine that explains binary tree searches and the like? I especially do not mean stuff like Compute! Gazette, or something for kids with no other interests than typing in silly games written in BASIC. If anybody knows of a magazine that does this, especially one whose prime function is to do things like that, please post to the net, or email to me. -- --Bill Buie
bmw@aesat.UUCP (Bruce Walker) (08/16/84)
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The only magazine I know of that more-or-less fits your description is
"Dr. Dobbs Journal" (previously known as "DDJ of Computer Calisthenics
and Orthodontia [Running Light Without Overbyte!]") which, originally, was
the hacker's delight. Not so much nowadays, but it still contains listings for
arcane and/or highly useful programs (screen editor for ASR33, C compiler
for SC/MPs etc :-) and, occasionally, a flowchart or two.
The only other mag that comes to mind is "Microsystems (The Journal for Advanced
Microcomputing)", but you have to have an interest in CP/M | S-100 | UNIX
(I guess that pretty well covers everyone not writing silly games in Basic (Gee,
my fuzzy walls didn't yoosta have scorch marks on them!) :-).
Bruce Walker {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!aesat!bmwwjb@burl.UUCP (Bill Buie) (08/17/84)
-- Please allow me to offer sincere thanks to the overwhelming response to my query. I now know that I am the only person on the net who had never heard of "Dr. Dobb's Journal of Computer Calisthenics and Orthodontia". Everybody can stop emailing those replies, now, I've gotten the message. -- "I love ya and I appreciate ya, now get outa here" --Bill Buie
Samuel@SU-SCORE.ARPA (08/17/84)
From: Sam Hahn <Samuel@SU-SCORE.ARPA> For software, Dr Dobb's Journal (of computer calisthenics and ordontia: "Running light without overbyte") is one of the earliest such magazines. It's become more widely oriented, but still retains a bit of the old hobbyist attitude. They're in Menlo Park: I'll send the address when I find it. Another one is Microsystems, from the same company that publishes Creative Computing. They're in MASS, -- same re the address. They began as a S-100 magazine, but have branched out and are even covering Unix now. -------
wjb@ariel.UUCP (08/21/84)
[hi, bug] One possible magazine that fits in that catagory is Dr. Dobb's Journal. It is a software magazine designed primarily for experienced microcomputer users who are interested in something more than the newest BASIC program. Among other things, it has published a c compiler for CPM*, a text editor, and a FORTH. It also has sections on MS-DOS* and UNIX*. At one time it was non-profit, but I believe it has been bought out by a large publishing company in the past year. (The articles still seem pretty good.) Bill Bogstad * Trademarks of somebody