On first encounter with a computer screen many people are overwhelmed, but by learning a few simple operations you can quickly master many of the routine tasks you might wish to perform, and when you have learnt these, the path will be open to you to become thoroughly computer literate. In these tutorials I will introduce some key concepts that will help you understand that, instead of being complicated, computer basics are a number of simple operations that you will find youself repeating in all the tasks you carry out.