Customer Reviews

Mastering Computer Typing: A Painless Course for Beginners and Professionals

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I am teaching a group of adults computer keyboarding for the workplace. This is by far the best book for the task. The excercises are practical. The spiral bound book makes an excellent desktop companion.

I purchased this book in order to teach my mother. In 1997 during middle school years I took keyboarding class, which I excelled in. In that class we worked out of a hard cover blue spiral book. In that book there were pages of pages of drills that we had to work through in order to progress toward more keys. That is where this book was a disappointment to me.
One half of this book is dedicated to typing information and the back side discusses secondary topics, such as: LAN, landscape, leading, lowercase, pixel, semicolon use, and other grammar or computer terminology. The book even goes into DOS, how to format a floppy disk, copy a file using DOS copy command and even computer programming for example half of this book has code, such as:
if ( shift == 16) {
shift=1;
buffer1 = buffer <<shift;}
else {
buffer1 ^=buffer >> (15-shift);
++shift;
This is unacceptable. I am considering returning this book now having worked on this review and seen how off track this book really gets. This book is suppose to be purely to master computer typing, and I would have use for more drills less how to write a letter or learn of programming languages. An important topic on finger position is fully detailed in four sentences. This is dismal. The book doesn't even include the basic tip of keeping your index finger planted to the when reaching for a distant key, for instance, the return key. How is this possible?
The last thing I'll decide to spend time to say that the overall physical quality reminds me of a homemade recipe book, being small in width and length. For example, the pages are uneven where they meet the spiral top; essentially some pages are physically longer than others. There are probably more things I could write, but I think you get the point. For the record, if the book made me in any way aware of the other material covered in it than it'd be no harm no foul, but just look at the title. Hopefully, I can get this thing returned.

nice, easy to follow typing book for both those just starting out and for those who need refreshening

My copy just arrived in the mail and I could see in a glance this is excellent. It is in the style of a college touch typing course that existed about twenty years ago. Obviously, in a spiral bound format this isn't little electronic bells and lights flashing "play typing." This is a real course.

I highly recommend it. I am so very pleased.

This book was helpful in that it provided lots of practice in a straight forward manner. It requires time dedication and self discipline. Overall a useful tool well worth the price.

This book is the best self-training material ever... the simplicity of the instructions and the order of lessons give a sense of smooth progression!

The best way to learn typing. You have to spend an hour each day for a month, and you learn typing with ease. The books strongest feature is simplicity: to have some easy task for each day. If you work with a keyboard, you have to buy this book.

I looked at a number of books to use in a computer literacy education program, for the touch-typing part of the training. Most of the books I looked at were far too busy and color-drenched on each page - visually confusing. This book is modeled after the 'old school' books, which met my needs. The materials work through a progression of exercises, starting with the basics on finger positioning, and then into full blown document preparation. Someone commented that it was - well, boring. In a way, yes, but it allows the person to focus on the materials page by page. I've recommended to my client that they purchase the books for all those participating in the Computer Literacy Education program I'll lead.

I was looking for a book to teach my kids how to type - correctly - and this book fits the bill perfectly. The lessons start with the basic hand positions and work up with plenty of exercises to build deterity and skill. I like that the book is flip-style and stands on its own. This is a great book with a reasonable price!

This book is written to give beginner and expert guidance in typing. It is well written.