This book is intended to be unlike any other you have on your shelf. It is not a collection of programs, it is not an introduction to the commands available in BASIC. It is not a collection of trivial routines such as how to write a two line subroutine to convert Fahrenheit to Centigrade.

The book is dedicated, like its predecessor "The Working Commodore 64", to those who want to set their micro loose on useful tasks, the kind of uses that are normally termed "applications programs". The success of "The Working Commodore 64", already into its fourth edition, shows that the era when people were happy to use the power of a micro-computer
only for games is over for good. People want to set micros to work: the problem is how to design the programs that will do it.