HAVERHILL — MakeIT Haverhill and UMass Lowell are teaming up to offer two, free eight-week computer basics classes this summer. The English language computer basics class meets from 4 to 6 p.m.

There is a sense of complete wonder at the insides of a computer, and it’s something I find both worrying and surprising. I am of the first generation for whom computers have been standard items in ...