Mitchell Waite

Mitchell Waite is an American computer programmer, author and publisher of a number of bestselling programming books along with mobile apps. He was one of the first people to write popular books about electronics and micro-processor-based systems, with his books encouraging the "rapid development of the Mac platform in the 1980s."

Life Waite studied physical sciences and mathematics at the College of Marin in Kentfield, California from 1968 to 1971, and physics at Sonoma State University in the following years. During this time, he was fascinated with electronics and spent his spare time hunting for circuits and computer parts.

Career Waite's first book was Projects in Sight, Sound and Sensation, written with Michael Pardee and exploring various DIY electronic art projects. The book was published in 1974. During this time Waite worked as a technical writer for a telephone system. After writing two more books with Pardee in the following years, Waite decided to leave his job and write computer books full-time.

By 1977, he was earning $18,000 a year as a technical writer, an income that increased seven years later to a quarter of a million dollars. Jobs introduced the Apple I to the group and Waite was one of the first people to use the revolutionary computer, purchasing his at The Byte Shop in San Rafael. Because the early users of the Apple 1 were such a small community, Waite was able to interact directly with Jobs and Steve Wozniak and learn how the computer worked. These insights helped him launch his career as a computer author.

Jobs later found out about an elaborate weather station attached to the Apple I that Waite was running on his houseboat in Greenbrae, California and invited himself up to see it. and by 1984 was grossing $1.5 million in sales annually.

The company was later sold to Simon & Schuster.

Books Books written by Mitchell Waite include:

CP/M Bible Soul of CP/M MS-DOS Bible C Primer Plus BASIC Programming Primer Unix Primer Plus Pascal Primer BASIC Programming Primer for PC Bluebook of Assembly Language DOS Primer for PC Pascal Primer Assembly Language Primer for PC Turbo C++ Bible The Unix Papers C: Step by Step Supercharging C with Assembly Language Inside the 80286 Framework from the Ground Up Master C: Let the PC Teach You C Object Oriented Programming in Turbo C++ C++ Primer Plus Master C++: Let the PC Teach You C Visual Basic How To Windows API Bible Workout C Windows Programming Primer Plus Windows API Bible Object Oriented Programming in Microsoft C++