Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Applications for Everyone

• Personal Reference Source
• The Electronic Memorandum Program
• An Index to Your Library
• Word Processing
• Letter Writing
• Categorizing Information
• A Recipe Index and Calculator
• Itinerary Assistant
• Phone Timer
• Telephone File, Dialer, and Answering Machine
• Greeting Card/Invitation List
• Personal Time Management System
• Decision Maker-
• Health
• Shorthand Translator
• Kitchen Inventory
• Rating Calculations
• Inventory of Possessions
• Index to Important Literature
• Day of the Week Calculation
• Food Store Shopping Aid
• Coupon File
• Home Planning
• Private Information Storehouse
• General Purpose Clock or Timer
• Blood Alcohol Content
• Carpenters' and Mechanics' Helper
• Car Maintenance Calculating and Record Keeping
• Raffle Ticket Producer and Drawer
• Life Expectancy Calculator
• Database Demonstration

2 Business and Financial Applications

• Finances and Investments
• Stocks, Bonds, and Securities
• Personal Accounting
• Money-Making Applications
• Business Decision Making
• General Business Calculations and Business Accounting Systems
• Additional Applications for the Small Business Person or the Professional
• The Computer and the Professions

3 Mathematical and Statistical Applications

• The Computer as a Sophisticated Calculator
• Statistlcs
• Mathematics
• Mathematical Recreations and Programming Challenges

4 Technical and Scientific Applications

• Weather Forecasting
• The Sundial Design Program
• Energy Efficiency Computation
• Technical and Scientific Calculations
• Engineering Applications

5 Educational Applications

• Application Ideas
• Computer Assisted Instruction
• Computer Tutor
• Educational Simulations
• Additional CAl Ideas

6 Hobby Applications

• The Arts-Hobbies

7 Games and Recreational Applications

• Board and Strategy Games You Can Program
• Computer Quizzes
• Games that Use Words
• Magic Computer
• Intelligence Games
• Programs for Young Children
• The Computer as Board Display Device, Bookkeeper, and Game Advisor
• Drawing and Kaleidoscope Programs
• Simulation and Adventure Games
• Video Games
• Recreations Involving the Computer Itself
• Computers and Chess
• Additional Game Programs

8 Control and Peripheral Applications

• Household Control Devices
• Music
• An External Device Controller for Your Computer
• An AID Converter for Your Computer
• Personal Robots

9 Artificial Intelligence, the Future Personal Computer, and Networking Futuristic Applications that Are Feasible Now

• Futuristic Applications that Are Not Yet Feasible Now
• Networking-Databases

10 Utility Programs

• Multipurpose Programs
• Utility Subroutines

11 Miscellaneous Applications

• Computers and the Humanities
• Aid to the Handicapped
• Test Your Typing Speed
• Maintenance of Organization Records
• Co-op Scheduling and Finances
• Tailor's Calculations
• Phone Code
• Brainstormer
• Source Index
• People Matching
• Greeting Card Producer
• Contests
• Handwriting Analysis
• Fifty Miscellaneous Applications

Appendix

Software Source Books

Glossary

Index