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Dr. Dobb's Journal issue #1
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| Editor | Andrew Binstock |
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| Categories | Computer magazines |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Circulation | 120,000 |
| First issue | January 1976 |
| Final issue | February 2009 (print) |
| Company | UBM |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Website | www.drdobbs.com (formerly www.ddj.com) |
| ISSN | 1044-789X |
Dr. Dobb's Journal (DDJ) was a monthly journal published in the United States by United Business Media. It covered topics aimed at computer programmers. When launched in 1975, DDJ was the first regular periodical focused on microcomputer software, rather than hardware. In its last years of publication, it was distributed as a PDF monthly, although the principal delivery of Dr. Dobb's content was through the magazine's website. Publication ceased at the end of 2014, with the archived website continuing to be available online.
Bob Albrecht edited an eccentric newspaper about computer games programmed in the BASIC computer language, with the same name as the tiny nonprofit educational corporation that he had founded, People's Computer Company (PCC). Dennis Allison was a longtime computer consultant on the San Francisco Peninsula and sometime instructor at Stanford University.
In the first three quarterly issues of the PCC newspaper published in 1975, Albrecht had published articles written by Allison, describing how to design and implement a stripped-down version of an interpreter for the BASIC language, with limited features to be easier to implement. He called it Tiny BASIC. At the end of the final part, Allison asked computer hobbyists who implemented it to send their implementations to PCC, and they would circulate copies of any implementations to anyone who sent a self-addressed stamped envelope. Allison said, Let us stand on each others' shoulders; not each others' toes.
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