"Logic 3's 'Learn BASIC programming' is the most effective self-pacing tutorial available to microcomputer users who want to learn how to program.

BASIC - Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code - was developed in the late 60's by Kemeny and Kurtz, two American university professors who wanted to make it as easy as possible for people with no previous computer experience to start actually using computers. As a result of the enormous popularity of microcomputers, BASIC has become the world's most widely used computer programming language. Yet many of the BASIC books and manuals which have been published for first time users seem to ignore the philosophy of BASIC's inventors. By forgetting that for many people the learning of BASIC is their first introduction to serious computing, they only serve to confuse their readers about a programming language which should be easy to learn.

BASIC was designed to be a natural starting point for people who wanted to know more about computers. In developing his own teaching method, Professor Andrew Colin deliberately returned to the inventions of the language's inventors. He originally developed his own method of teaching BASIC at the University of Strathclyde. He specifically created the method, not for computer scientists, but to assist students from a wide range of academic backgrounds to become familiar with the new world of computers. He tested and polished the Strathclyde Method on three generations of students. Subsequently his work came out on top in independent trials carried out by Loughborough University, and was chosen by Commodore for their own programming tutorials.

Now, working together with Talent Computer Systems, Logic 3 has refined and developed the Strathclyde Method still further. Today, the method used successfully by over 300,000 people to learn programming, is available to user of most popular microcomputers.

Understanding computers is possibly the most important aspect of the new industrial revolution of microelectronics and information technology - 'Learn BASIC programming' is your key to the world of tomorrow." Andrew Goltz, Logic 3 Ltd.

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