Fallout: New Vegas skill magazine Programmer's Digest
	effects +10 Science for 60 seconds (+20 with Comprehension) (for 180 seconds with Retention) weight 0 value $20 base id 000ec4b1

 

Programmer's Digest is a skill magazine in Fallout: New Vegas.

CharacteristicsEdit

Reading this magazine raises your Science skill by 10 points (20 points with the Comprehension perk) for 60 seconds (180 seconds with Retention).

CraftingEdit

This item can be crafted by the player.

Creation requirements

Materials:		Requirements:		Produces:
wonderglue (1) blank magazine (2)	range	Workbench¹ Repair: 25 Lonesome Road add-on Voracious Reader Picking up a copy of Programmer's Digest after the Voracious Reader perk is chosen.	level	Programmer's Digest (1)

¹ Craftable without a workbench via a dialogue option with Veronica, or with ED-E once the add-on Lonesome Road is installed.

LocationsEdit

Below is a list of all fixed locations of Programmer's Digest skill magazines in Fallout: New Vegas and its add-ons. For an overview of magazines per location, see the main overview page.

Closest map marker	Location description
Ashton missile silo fnvlr	Level 1 launchdeck, in a desk in the medical room with the Auto-Doc, along with a Fixin' Things.
Broc Flower Cave	In the upper chamber with the rest of the medical loot. One is on the table with the chemistry set; the other is on the table near the dummy computer terminal (along with a Today's Physician).
Camp Golf	House Resort, second floor on a table next to a Fixin' Things in a center room with the non-functioning terminal.
Camp Golf	Camp Golf tent, the one with Sgt. McCredie in it, on the desk in the back right.
Camp Guardian	Camp Guardian caves, in the bottom right corner of the map. Behind a large group of lakelurkers and inside a duffle bag within their cave.
Followers safehouse	One is found on the middle bed of the safehouse next to a copy of Today's Physician.
Goodsprings	Two in the Goodsprings schoolhouse, on two benches near walls (one next to the terminal).
Hoover Dam	Power plant 01, on a desk upstairs just outside the door to Hoover Dam offices.
Hoover Dam	Hoover Dam offices, in an eastern room, on a desk with the inventory terminal.
Hoover Dam	In the northeastern Hoover Dam tower (ladies room), in one of the stalls upstairs.
Hopeville missile silo bunker fnvlr	Ground level, silo blast door control-room; on top of the blast door-control.
Jacobstown	In the lodge in an upstairs room. Take the hallway on the left, then take the first right. It should be in the third room from the right on a table along with a Fixin' Things.
Junction 7 Rest Stop fnvlr	In a ruined building called Parker's Restaurant and Fountain, upstairs in a fallen down bookshelf.
Matthews Animal Husbandry Farm	(3) located in a duffle bag on the second floor of the east-most barn.
Mick & Ralph's	On the second floor next to a non-working terminal. Must be stolen.
New Vegas Steel	Office area, in a bin beside the desk with the intact terminal.
Nellis Air Force Base	Nellis schoolhouse, on the teacher's desk together with a Boxing Times and Fixin' Things.
Nipton	Town Hall, two magazines in Major Steyn's office on his desk next to the terminal.
Old Mormon Fort	Sold by Julie Farkas at a discount, after providing her with enough supplies during Friend of the Followers.
Poseidon Gas Station	Just south of the station, on a shelf in Violet's makeshift fort.
Primm	Nash residence, on a table next to the bed, along with a Fixin' Things.
Puesta del Sol Dead Money	Switching station, on a console to your right before descending the stairs.
Red Rock Canyon	NW tent around the fire. On the floor with/under a Lad's Life and Milsurp Review.
Red Rock Drug Lab	In the front trailer, on a bench near a chemistry set, next to a Today's Physician.
South Vegas Ruins West Entrance	At Violet's hidout. Up on her tower on the left by the metal box.
Sunset Sarsaparilla Headquarters	On the table to the right as soon as you enter through the main entrance (opposite of Festus).
The Think Tank fnvowb	On top of a terminal, to the back where Dr. Borous is working.
The Tops	13th floor, in the southern middle room behind an Average locked door, on a desk.
Vault 22	Beside the mattress upon first entering.
Vault 19	First floor, under the desk with the terminal in the first room on the left after entering the Blue Sector.
Villa Police Station Dead Money	In a small room with a reloading bench, on the closest shelf to the right as you enter.