Micro Adventure
Micro Adventure is the title of a series of books for young adult readers, published by Scholastic, Inc. during the 1980s. Created by Eileen Buckholtz and Ruth Glick, the YA series combined adventure stories with computer activities. Through the second-person narration, the reader took the part of Orion, a computer expert and agent for the Adventure Connection Team, and followed the action in the continuing struggle against ACT’s nemesis, BRUTE (Bureau of Random Unlawful Terror and Evil). The plots generally resembled those typically found in other works of the secret agent/adventure genre, ranging from sabotage  aboard a space station to android doubles of the President of the United States, but stand out for their clever twists and lack of "dumbing down" often found in similar juvenile literature. Most of the programs, even “shoot-em-up” games, were designed to be small (none were over 2K in file size, a must given the limitations of some personal computers available at the time, such as the TI-99/4A) and tailored towards novice programmers. Instructions were included on how to "tweak" the programs to make them run on almost any popular home computer of the time. As a  bonus, an appendix to each book gave step-by-step analyses of each of the programs in that particular book as a method of teaching simple programming theory and construction. In 2017, Auri Rahimzadeh created a website to read the books and enter their programs in an on-page emulator. List of titles. Micro Adventure series Magic Micro series