Covering hardware, software, programming, application development, office automation, graphics, and communications, this glossary provides a fair knowledge of computer usage. It gives a glance into the history of computing as well as the latest fields, such as computer nets. It can be used by students, business people, journalists, and all laypeople.

The book is of a suitable size, well printed, and provided with many illustrations. A more advanced reader would regret some missing items; to produce a greater dictionary with more material would require more volumes and a higher price. I would appreciate a more detailed book that told me more about certain commands.

The book mentions many text editor and spreadsheet terms, but I did not find such terms as “global,” “titles,” “label-prefixes,” and “scroll.” More keyboard types could be shown, as could various fonts. The glossary should end with an index of all terms covered and, to help in finding a needed word, alphabet guide words should appear at the top of every page. In spite of these remarks I can recommend this book highly to those who know little about computers and want to get in touch with them. Public libraries should not miss it.