Publications (up to 2006 - I promise I'll get round to updating soon)

Books


Casio Programmable Scientific Calculators, 1977 (Casio) with Garry Marshall

Program Library for Sinclair Cambridge Programmable calculator - 4 volumes, 1977 (Hobson’s Press)

The student's calculator book, 1978 (Chartwell-Bratt)   with Michael Bawtree

Sinclair Book of Students' Calculations, 1979 (Martin). with Michael Bawtree

Personal Computer Book, 1980 (Input Two Nine).

The Computer Book, 1981 (BBC Publications) with Peter Laurie, Peter de Bono

(the above book was translated into Greek, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Hungarian, Catalan, Hebrew, Japanese and German foreign language editions; over 400,000 copies sold)

The Beginners' Guide to Computers, 1982 (Addison-Wesley) with Peter Laurie and Peter de Bono

Choosing and Using a Business Microcomputer, 1982 (Gower) with Barry Miles, Mike O'Reilly and Robert Webb

Personal Computer Book, 2e, 1982 (Gower)

Robin Bradbeer’s Personal Computer Book, 3e, 1984 (Gower)

Learning to use the ZX81, 1982 (Gower)

Learning to use the ZX Spectrum, 1982 (Gower/Readout)

Introductory  manual for ZX Spectrum Computer, 1982  (Sinclair) (Over 5 million printed)

Programming manual for ZX Spectrum Computer, 1982 (Sinclair) with Steven Vickers (Over 5 million printed)

Introductory and programming manuals for Colour Genie Computer, 1982  (Lowe)

The Times Book of Computer Puzzles and Games for the Sinclair Spectrum, 1984 (Sidgwick and Jackson) with Harold Gale

The Times Book of Computer Puzzles and Games for the Commodore 64, 1984 (Sidgwick and Jackson) with Harold Gale

The Home Computer Book, 1985 (Duckworth)

The Personal Robot Book, 1985 (Glentop) with Richard Greenhill and David Buckley

The Sinclair User Handbook, 1985 (Glentop)

The QL User Handbook, 1985 (Glentop)

The Spectrum Add-On Book, 1986 (Glentop) with David Buckley

Computer Communications Handbook, 1987 (Glentop)


The BBC Computer Book 
 Sunday Times #1 non-fiction best-seller Mar-May 1983 

The Hebrew edition

The Greek edition


Over 5 Million of these were printed!


The German edition 


The Japanese edition

The Italian edition 


The Spanish edition 


 


Over 5 Million of these were printed!

Series Editor:  


The QL Series, 1984 (Hutchinson)
Profiting from the Sinclair QL - Barry Miles 
Advanced programming with the Sinclair QL - Martin Gandoff 
Database management on the Sinclair QL - Mike O'Reilly 
Introduction to SuperBASIC on the Sinclair QL - Dick Meadows 
Desktop computing on the Sinclair QL - Barry Miles 
Introducing the Sinclair QL - Garry Marshall 
Word processing with the Sinclair QL - Mike O'Reilly 
Using graphics on the Sinclair QL - Garry Marshall 
Making the most of the Sinclair QL - Dick Meadows 
Machine code programming on the Sinclair QL - Martin Gandoff
The ST Series, 1985/6 (Glentop)
Using ST BASIC on the Atari ST
- Dick Meadows 
Using LOGO on the Atari ST - Martin Sims 
Business applications with the Atari ST - Barry Miles 
Introducing the Atari ST 
Using GEM on the Atari ST 
Using databases on the Atari ST - Mike O'Reilly 
Using graphics on the Atari ST - Garry Marshall 
Advanced users guide to the Atari ST 
Practical LOGO on the Atari ST - Martin Sims 
The concise Atari ST 68000 programmer's reference guide - Katherine Peel
Editor
 
Current Practices in Multimedia Education, 1999 (CityU Press) Mechatronics and Machine Vision 2002: current practice, Research Studies Press,  2002 with John Billingsley
Guest Editor

The Information Technology Yearbook 1983/4, 1983 (Century for HM Government, Department of Trade and Industry)
International Journal of Engineering Education, (focusing on multimedia engineering education), November 1999.

Journal/Magazine Editor

Educational Computing (UK), ECC Publications: Consulting Editor 1976-79 , Editor 1979-1984.
Microprocessors at Work (UK), Elsevier: Editor 1979-1984

Some recent journal and conference  publications (from 1990 to 2006 - needs to be updated) 

Robotics and underwater systems

Education

Seminars and other presentations (Selection)  
Papers written for EdD programme at University of Durham, UK
My doctoral thesis (2003)  "An evaluation of the effectiveness of studio-based teaching for a first year electronic engineering degree course".
 
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