Easy Programming for the Commodore 64 is a 1983 Shiva Publishing beginner’s guide by Ian Stewart and Robin Jones that teaches new Commodore 64 users how to set up the machine and learn BASIC programming step by step. It starts with hardware setup, keyboard use, direct commands, programs, loops, variables, input, branching, strings, arrays, and data lists, then moves into Commodore-specific features such as PEEK and POKE, screen and color memory, PET graphics, keyboard control, sprites, sound and music, high-resolution graphics, cassette files, and useful memory/register references. The book is written as a bridge between the basic user manual and the more technical programmer’s reference guide, with many sample programs, projects, debugging chapters, and appendices for binary conversion, sprite registers, sound chip registers, memory maps, system variables, and keyboard scan codes.