Interactive BASIC Programming

Your Computer

Overall 3/5

ZX Spectrum Elgen Software Educational £9.95 A very useful set of four cassettes which instead of letting books blow your mind, allow your computer to do it for you. Permitting you to type in and program normally while IBP is resident in the machine, it tries very hard to be a blow-by-blow introduction to hands-on home computing. I think you would have to hang on to your manual - I'm sure most real novices need to have it pointed out to them that there actually is a Beep key, and if you try to type in Beep, all you get is Border BBB, because there are so many other keys to press first. But common sense permitting, this looks like a very useful guide for beginners provided they can find a human to help them out when they're really stuck.