Absolute Beginner's Guide Computer Basics, Windows 11 Edition, 10th Edition

Introduction

Because this book is titled Computer Basics: Absolute Beginner’s Guide, let’s start at the absolute beginning, which is this:

Computers aren’t supposed to be scary. Intimidating? Sometimes. Difficult to use? Perhaps. Inherently unreliable? Not really, although they used to be.

But scary? Definitely not.

Computers aren’t scary because there’s nothing they can do to hurt you (unless you drop one on your foot, that is). And there’s not much you can do to hurt them either. It’s kind of a wary coexistence between person and machine, but the relationship has the potential to be beneficial—to you, anyway.

Many people think that they’re scared of computers because they’re unfamiliar with them. But that isn’t really true.

You see, even if ...