Computers Simplified, Student Edition

Ruth Maran, Ian Campbell

ISBN 10: 0764560085 / ISBN 13: 9780764560088

Published by Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 1998

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[ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Edition: third ] Publisher: IDG Books Worldwide, Inc. Pub Date: 3/3/1998 Binding: Paperback Pages: 223 third edition. Seller Inventory # 6515512

Bibliographic Details

Title: Computers Simplified, Student Edition

Publisher: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill

Publication Date: 1998

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Edition: 3rd Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

Integrating visual explanations of computer concepts with simple words and pictures, Glencoe's New Visual Approach Series appeals to today's visually oriented learner. Designed for the classroom, the texts get your students up and running with today's most popular hardware and software. The Glencoe Visual Approach Series is simply the best - and easiest - graphics-format concepts content available.

Review:

IDG and maranGraphics have come very close to the ideal "superdummy" format with Computers Simplified, Fourth Edition. This book explains personal computing technology to the complete neophyte, but unlike many books for nervous newbies, this one manages to provide a complete picture without drowning the reader in details.

This book does not cover the actual use of a personal computer--you won't find any explanations of how to manipulate a mouse or what the Windows 98 Start button does. Rather, Computers Simplified gives an overview of personal computing technology, from the components that make up an IBM-standard PC to the Internet and Web. After reading this heavily illustrated book, readers will know which aspects of computing interest them, and what they should look into next.

The great thing about Computers Simplified is that it explains pretty much everything a new user will wonder about. For example, even though digital cameras are a relatively new phenomenon, novices will have heard about them and want to know what they can do. This is also true for Zip drives, palm-size computers, scanners, fax software, Windows NT, and dozens of other aspects of personal computers that elementary books traditionally have neglected. Computers Simplified is like a child's science book in that it mentions lots of advanced stuff, but explains it in basic terms. --David Wall