The Beginner's Guide to Computers

The Beginner's Guide to Computers

US edition cover
Author
  • Robin Bradbeer
  • Peter De Bono
  • Peter Laurie
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Publisher
Publication date
1982
Media type Print
ISBN 0201112086
OCLC 9016145

The Beginner's Guide to Computers is a book about microcomputers and general computing. It was published in 1982 as an accompaniment to the BBC Computer Literacy Project[1] and The Computer Programme.[2]

Its content covers the basics of the history of computing, programming languages, debugging, logic programming, semiconductor memory, printing, ADCs/DACs, flowcharts, as well as some technologies only found in Britain (such as Prestel, Ceefax, ORACLE).[1][2] The possibilities of networks, robotics, electronic offices and publishing are also considered, with particular reference to the BBC Micro.[2]

Reception

The book's square shape was described in The New York Times as "clumsy", although this does not stop it from being a "quite decent introduction" which is "easy to read". Those interested in actually using personal computers to "do something" were advised to look elsewhere.[1] The World Yearbook of Education 1982/83: Computers and Education described it as "lucidly written and well laid out with profuse illustrations", noting the use of "appealing cartoons".[2]

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