At about 5 years old I moved from nursery (note that I moved; I was not 'kicked out' for showing my...) to primary school. Even though my older brother was already there, I remember being really scared about going. None of my nursery school friends were going to the same school and I was terrified about meeting all of these new children. I arrived in my classroom and, as I'd feared, it was full of scary children. In a fairly transparent ploy to make me think that I'd be spending the next 6 years building sand castles, the teacher told me to play in the sand pit. While I was nervously trying to discover whether I could build a pile of sand high enough to bury my head in it, a boy came and joined me. He was Jonathan Land, and he was really nice. Within an hour he was my new best friend (5-year-olds are fickle...) and I loved school. Sometimes new environments seem more scary than they really are. This chapter introduces you to what might seem like a scary new environment: IBM SPSS Statistics. The SPSS environment is a generally more unpleasant environment in which to spend time than your normal environment; nevertheless, we have to spend time there if we are to analyse our data. The purpose of this chapter is, therefore, to put you in a sand pit with a 5-year-old called Jonathan. I will orient you in your new home and everything will be fine. We will explore the key windows in SPSS (the data editor, viewer and the syntax editor) and also look at how to create variables, enter data and adjust the properties of your variables. We finish off by looking at how to load files and save them.