Well, I had pretty much become an expert in writing text based games, but after a while that had become a little boring so I wanted a bit more of a challenge, so imagine my surprise when looking through a catalogue of Usbourne books I discovered that they had published a book about writing Computer ...
A very nice basic intro into Greek Mythology--written in an easy-to-read, unintimidating style, yet it doesn't have that 'dumbed down' feeling either.