Highlights the insights and skills needed to move beyond the basics with Microsoft Access, an easy-to-use program with a wealth of features. Focuses on the importance of designing databases that will not become cumbersome and slow moving. Contains extensive treatment on porting records from already existing databases without losing or scrambling data. Details the programming language Access Basic.
Margaret Levine Young was in a high school computer club back when high schools didn't have computer clubs, and stayed in the field despite in college despite the presence of her brother John Levine in the computer science department. Margy graduated from Yale and went on to become one of the first PC managers at Columbia Pictures, where she didn't meet anyone famous.
Since then, Margy has written dozens of books about computers for beginners. She lives in Vermont and works as a software engineer for the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA.org).
