PCC was founded and produced by Dennis Allison, Bob Albrecht and George Firedrake in Menlo Park, California in the early 1970s.
[2] PCC was one of the first organizations to recognize the potential of Tiny BASIC in the nascent field of personal computing when it published that language's design specification in their newsletter.
It published arguably the first best-seller in microcomputer literature, My Computer Likes Me When I Speak BASIC[4] and What to Do After You Hit Return.
It focused on publishing code listings, mostly for games, that users could hand type into their early-model (and some homebrew) personal computers.
Computer phobia was commonly perceived by PCC staff as a barrier to learning in a significant number of users, even in a large majority of some populations during those early years.
to develop curriculum and to conduct intensive trainings for the non-profit recipients of computer hardware and software grants from Apple.