800, or 1200XL.
You
can insert the
BASIC
cart-
ridge directly into
your
computer
when
you
want
to
do
some
progr
amming
of
your
own
.
Once
you
are much more familiar
with
pro-
gramming,
you
may
want
to
purchase a
differ
-
ent language
(a
different
set
of
commands) for
your
computer. There
are
other languages avail-
able, some
of
which
are more useful in
different
applications. But at this point,
you
do
not
need
to
concern yourself
too
much
with
languages
and
programming-especially
since there are
so
many already-created programs
that
you
can
buy
and
use.
COMPUTER
LITERACY
One
of
the most important benefits
of
personal
computing
is
achieving computer literacy. Com-
puter
literacy simply means being familiar
with
computers and
knowing
how
to
use computers
as
tools
to
perform tasks for
you
.
What
we
should be concerned
about
is
how
people use computers.
You
can use a hammer
as
a tool
to
build or tear
down
things. Understand-
ing
that
computers are simply more sophisti-
cated tools used
by
people-including
yourself
-will
help
you
to
feel comfortable using com-
puters
as
constructive tools that can help sim-
plify many
of
your
everyday tasks.
Are
you
ready~o
learn
how
to
set up and
use
your
computer? Then, let's begin!
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