Computers: The User Perspective, 2nd edition, is oriented toward future computer users, not future computer specialist. Users-also called end-users-treat the computer as a tool for working with reports, spreadsheets, databases, and the like. They are not the specialist who will write programs for computers or who will design computer system.
Too many introductory texts, we believe, try to please both users and specialist, and as a result fail both. They don’t provideenough technical detail for the specialist but they offer too much detail and not enough practical, business-related information for the user.