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The End of Computer Magazines in America - Slashdot

With Maximum PC and MacLife's abandonment of print, the dead-tree era of computer journalism is officially over. It lasted almost half a century -- and was quite a run. Harry McCracken writes: The April issues of Maximum PC and MacLife are currently on sale at a newsstand near you -- assuming there ...

Show threadJason B 🧙‍♂️
@slashdot Ugh. I miss mags like Byte or Nibble. I learned a lot of computer programming using those mags.
Apr 19, 2023 at 8:14pmWeb
Show threadDenis AndersonApr 20, 2023
@jkb @slashdot by the time they reach your hands, it is old news.
Show threadJason B 🧙‍♂️Apr 20, 2023

@dtanderson @slashdot I disagree. In fact, I learned how to build a database, a simple address book on my Apple ][e. By the time I as in the 90s I had added a SQL like language. I wrote a lot of programs in the pages of nibble that I used until I got rid of that computer.

Languages change; yes. News changes; quickly. But learning how to create a program and maintain it that doesn't change. Especially, when the mag concentrates on rolling your own versus buying something or downloading.