Eileen Buckholtz
Autor de Space Attack
Sobre El Autor
Nota de desambiguación:
(eng) Eileen Buckholtz co-writing with Ruth Glick children books and romance novels under the pseudonyms Samantha Chase, Alyssa Howard, Amanda Lee and Rebecca York.
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Obras de Eileen Buckholtz
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Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Buckholtz, Eileen Garber
- Otros nombres
- Chase, Samantha
Howard, Alyssa
Lee, Amanda
York, Rebecca - Fecha de nacimiento
- 1949
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Biografía breve
- Eileen Garber was born in 1949. She obtained a Master Computer Scientist. During her distinguished career with the Department of Defense (1970-2001), she held a variety of technical leadership and management positions in emerging technology, knowledge management, Internet applications, IT workforce development, project management, policy and planning.
Eileen first fiction book was a collaborative effort with three friends Ruth Glick, Louise Titchener, and Carolyn Males, the result was a romance novel Love is Elected, published in 1982 by Silhouette under the pseudonym Alyssa Howard. She also published two computer books for kids. She wrote over a dozen young adult's books with Ruth Glick, with whom she also wrote romance novels under the pseudonyms: Amanda Lee, Samantha Chase and Rebecca York. But in the late 1990s, she decided to stop writing romance novels and focused in her informatic career.
She is an award-winning web designer since 1994. She serves as President of Technology Concepts, Inc, a web and knowledge management consultant firm for small business and government. Her client list includes bestselling authors such as Nora Roberts, Mary Jo Putney, and Patricia Rice, Bookstores such as Turn the Page Books, and Mystery Loves Company, and other small businesses. She writes a national column on the Internet for Better Health and Living Magazine and is a professor at the University of Phoenix Online and the UOP Maryland campus teaching e-business and web technology courses.
Eileen is married with Howard Buckholtz, and had two sons, Ryan and David. The family lives in Maryland, USA. - Aviso de desambiguación
- Eileen Buckholtz co-writing with Ruth Glick children books and romance novels under the pseudonyms Samantha Chase, Alyssa Howard, Amanda Lee and Rebecca York.
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The Charisma books were a lot of fun to read when I was a teenager. They stayed within the age range but still felt like I was reading a true young adult of the time.
Just reread this and it was MUCH better than I remember (maybe my expectations were lower?). Lots of spy action and romance in a very teeny-boppy way (that IS the audience). Amber and Samantha are sent to Washington DC to investigate the harassment of a senator. Amber falls in love with one of the suspects (of course).
I loved the whole concept of these books: a company of secret agents disguised as models are sent to exotic locales around the world where they manage to fall in love every time (usually with the top suspect). I do realize, however, that this only works for highschoolers and below(I read these in jr. high).
In this particular volume, Samantha and Amber are sent to the Goodwill Games in Canada to help a Russian skier defect to the US and avoid the KGB agent trying to stop him.
The initial interactions between Samantha and Amber (who can't stand each other and end up roomies) is nearly as entertaining as the rest of the book!… (más)
In this particular volume, Samantha and Amber are sent to the Goodwill Games in Canada to help a Russian skier defect to the US and avoid the KGB agent trying to stop him.
The initial interactions between Samantha and Amber (who can't stand each other and end up roomies) is nearly as entertaining as the rest of the book!… (más)
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It follows the same format as those ‘choose-your-own-adventure’ jobbies, except that rather than choices you need to write out and run seven programs in BASIC in order to proceed. The programs are compatible with:
ZX Spectrum
QL
BBC Micro
Acorn Electric
IBM PC
Pcjr
Apple II+, Iic, Iie (with Applesoft BASIC)
Commodore 64
VIC 20
TI 99/4A
Atari 400/800
Tandy TRS-80 models 1, 3 and 4
Tandy Colour Computer
Dragon 32/64
So if you have one of these machines you’re good to go. I do not so I had to find a way to emulate one on my PC. I went for the BBC Micro’s dialect because their English is so good and downloaded a piece of software called BBC Basic for Windows from here:
http://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcwin/download.html
You only need the free version for the purposes of this book. There are also version for Linux etc if you’re a cleverclogs.
The programs are fun, but the intention is obviously to teach you BASIC. Looking at the first three, for the first you need simply to type it correctly. For the second you need to read the English embedded in the program. For the third you need to read the code itself. Thereafter they teach you transferable skills like reading ASCII or analysing a dataset. The seventh program (which gives you an arcade game with fucking amazing graphics) contains an (unintentional?) error. I was able to fix it, but only by understanding and amending multiple lines of code. That said, there are still many things about the language I don’t understand and I might try some of the other books in the series before graduating to the Linux command line.… (más)