Mike and Rose are the Magic Micros and together with Inspector Key they help to unravel the mysteries of the ZX Spectrum keyboard.

This enjoyable and instructive book takes the absolute beginner to computing through all the concepts central to programming in BASIC.

With tremendous ease, you will learn how to use all the facilities of the keyboard, how to create a program and make it work, together with editing, program control, simple loops and numeric variables, and how to understand syntax errors and report codes. You will also learn how to control the placing of text and pictures on the screen, how to use colour and movement and how to produce sound effects.

Achieving your programming skills is above all great fun. In the company of Mike and Rose, whatever your age, you will discover the magic of micros.