Grandpa and the Computer

Rating:
Summary: a different perspective
Review: A funny, lighthearted look at computer usage, directed at the utter tyro. The author is from a totally different generation from most of us. He started learning to use the computer at the age of 82! Whereas some of you might scarcely recall when a browser was a person and not a computer program.

Other introductory texts, like the Dummies and Idiots series, are far more lavishly illustrated, with colour screen captures, for example. This book is certainly not comprehensive, regarding what might appear on your machine. But then again, it doesn't claim to be. Hart focuses on what he regards as the salient points of usage, and his choices are correct.

Perhaps the book can be best read as an alternative take. From his age and experience, there are occasional comments in the text that show a different viewpoint.

And the cartoons are amusing.