Designed to improve students' thinking, learning, and creative skills while they learn to program a microcomputer in BASIC programing language, this book for advanced learners at the junior high level provides a variety of microcomputer activities designed to extend the concepts learned in the accompanying instructional manuals (volumes 5 and 6). These activities require students to apply those concepts to challenging problems which need original and creative solutions. Each activity includes introductory information; a program to enter, run, and observe; and challenges to change or use the program. Titles of the individual activities are as follows: Trade Marks; Die Randomly; Chase It; Seating Charts; Sort of Sorting; Sorting; Alphabetizing; Math Designs; The Letter Connection; Three Letter Words; Four Letter Words; Letter Count; Keeping Tabs; Super Letter Count; Job Hunting; Letter Equality?; Databank; Lettercount2; Pick and Choose; Group Selection; Pick Only One; Paired with E; The Winning Pair; Ate or Eat or Etc.; Binary Lights; Hexadecimals Aren't Hexed; Your Number is Up; Time; Space Ship; and Something Very Special. (Author/LMM)