I’m looking for a book with the title, if I remember correctly, “Duel for Volrathia.” It was a book to teach children how to program computers using the BASIC programming language.
I think it had a red border on the cover, hardback, about 9×12″.
The book told a story of a boy and a robot that traveled to the planet Volrathia, who then use computer programming to solve different puzzles and progress through the story. It was all quite clever because of the lack of formality; the reader was on an adventure! The story (and programming exercises) climaxed in a showdown between the reader and the giant war computer of Volrathia, which plays Tic-Tac-Toe.
I can’t find any record of the book, neither with the library where I grew up, nor with the Library of Congress. Any help would be appreciated!
Stump the Bookseller
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Hello! While these may not be the exact book you are looking for they are certainly similar and of the right time period. I’m hoping that these same authors may have written the one you remember. The authors are: Stuart Paltrowitz & Donna Paltrowitz. Their books I found are: The Mystery And Adventure Computer Storybook and The Science Fiction Computer Storybook, both published in 1983 and both include many separate stories about children going on adventures and using the BASIC programming language to help them solve problems and puzzles. You can read the complete texts of both these books on the Internet Archive. Hope this information is helpful. Good luck with your search!