Classic children's books on coding reprogrammed for a new generation

Author Lisa Watts, who helped to teach a generation of children about computers a quarter of a century ago, hopes new books will inspire tomorrow's programmers

"Back in the 1980s, the big question was: what are we going to do with these computers? We were empowered - we had a ZX81 or a BBC Micro - but would we just play games with them? People wanted to find out what the change was going to be, but we didn't know: we had no idea about the internet and things like that. Although apparently we predicted it in one of our books ""

When it comes to children and computer programming, Lisa Watts wrote the book. In fact, she wrote and edited a whole series of them in the early 1980s as a key member of the team at publisher Usborne.