If you've mastered the contents of the manual that came with your BBC Microcomputer and how want to continue your exploration of the computer's functions and capabilities, this book is for you. The author, a 17 year old student, spent months delving into the computer's internal operations in order to reveal a large number of sophisticated techniques to help the reader improve his or her programming skills.

The book includes the following features: details of how to construct your own display modes; a way to scroll the display in any direction (up, down, sideways and even diagonally); a visual analogue of the computer's memory transactions; information on the way in which the computer stores its programs and line numbers; a technique for increasing the speed of your programs by up to 10%; instructions on how to pass arrays and matrices to user-defined functions and procedures; and much, much more.

If you're serious about developing your programming skills on the BBC Micro, this book will prove an invaluable aid.