This book is intended for beginners. The book follows the style of other programming texts in the

Schaum s Outline Series (the first of which, published in 1975, was my own Programming with Basic). As such, it is written in a manner that can easily be understood by advanced secondary or beginning college-level students. Hence, it can be used as a textbook for an introductory programming course, as a supplementary text in a programming course or as an effective self-study guide. For the most part, the required mathematical level does not go beyond high school algebra.