FORTH has acquired an undeserved reputation for being difficult to learn, but it is actually quite an easy language to master if you start with the basics and go on from there. Written for the programming beginner, this book does just that; you need no previous experience. Each chapter introduces some new FORTH concepts and illustrates each one with examples, most of which relate to the payroll program example used in this book. Other FORTH examples can be found in Appendix A. On completion of this book, you will have a basic working knowledge of FORTH, and you should be ready to move on to intermediate-level programming in FORTH.