He is an experienced author on microcomputer subjects, with some 70 magazine articles and 25 books to his credit. Aitken's writing covers both applications and programming topics. His books include QuickBasic Advanced Techniques (Que), Learning C (Sams Publishing), and The 10 Minute Guide to Word 97 (Que). He is a Contributing Editor at Visual Developer magazine, where he writes the pop-ular Basically Visual column. Visit Aitken's Web page at http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/peter_aitken/.