Book details of 'The First Book of Personal Computing'

Title	The First Book of Personal Computing
Author(s)	Joe Kraynak, Wally Wang, Stephen R. Poland
ISBN	1567612849
Language	English
Published	September 1993
Publisher	Alpha Books

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Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
An introduction to personal computing is ambitious even when the book concentrates on a single platform. When the project tries to encompass more than one, you can expect the material presented to be pretty simplistic. And so it is with this volume. As is fairly common with such attempts, this work is somewhat unconvincing. It is difficult to convince people of the utility of computers if they have not had experience with them. In addition, while the contents are presented in a balanced manner, a list of "the computer can do X for you" items has more in common with sales brochures than user guides. The chapter on word processors, for example, uses only one program, and, as much as I like WordPerfect, other applications are presenting increasingly divergent interfaces. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1996
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