Practical PC

by June Jamrich Parsons, Dan Oja

A part of the Practical series, this text offers an engaging, interactive approach to teaching PC concepts. The companion BookOnCD featuring videos, animations, screen tours, and hands-on activities, which teaches students how to use their PC. This edition includes new screenshots and screentours featuring Office 2003 and Windows XP and covers important ethical and societal issues that affect today's PC users, such as software, piracy, e-commerce security, email privacy, and more.

224 pages, Paperback

First published March 28, 1999

About the author

June Parsons purchased her first computer, an Apple II+, in 1981 and quickly became fluent in BASIC, dBASE II, Lotus 123, WordStar, and a variety of accounting programs. The next year, they opened a successful small computer retail store that also offered software instruction to children and adults.
June taught at the university level for more than 20 years, has a doctorate in Educational Technology, and was certified by the ICCP in 1995. June began writing and creating educational software with her husband, Dan Oja, for Course Technology in 1992. They contributed to the Windows for Business and Illustrated Series and developed the New Perspectives, e-Course, and Practical series. They work via the Internet with a team of highly skilled media specialists and desktop publishers located in various states and provinces.