A Guide to Computing Tutorials

(compiled by Andrew Rau-Chaplin, minor editing by E. Milios)

Tutorials marked with * are suitable for a basic computer user, ** are highly recommended.

1 General computer term glossaries.

* http://www.webopaedia.com/

* http://www.zdwebopedia.com/

2 Windows Tutorials.

Basic:
** http://www.lesson-plans-online.com/

A collection of more advanced “How to guides”:

http://windows2000.about.com/compute/windows2000/msub69.htm

3 Unix intro

Basic:

*** http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/

Advanced with full examples:

http://www.geek-girl.com/Unixhelp/index.html

4 Moving files from PC to Unix using WS_FTP

Where to download the WS_FTP LE (limited edition) version from:

http://www.csra.net/junodj/ws_ftp32.htm

Using ws_ftp:

* http://www.ecu.edu/webdev/wsftp-to-personal.html

5 Telnet application

Where to download, Tera Term, a graphical Telnet application:

http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html

6 WINZIP

Where to download, WinZip, a graphical compression application:

http://www.winzip.com/

Using WinZip to decompress files

* http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~thicks/WinZip/UsingWinZip.html

7 File Formats

Lists matching file extensions with their applications.

** http://www.stack.com/

http://www.daubnet.com/formats/

8 Internet Guides

Microsoft centric guide to browsing the Internet

http://www.microsoft.com/insider/internet/default.htm

Massive set of tutorials for the beginner

*** http://netforbeginners.about.com/internet/netforbeginners/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.webteacher.org/winexp/indextc.html

9 About Web Searching

http://www.monash.com/spidap.html

http://www.notess.com/search/

http://www.squirrelnet.com/search/top20.htm

10 HTML Stuff

A great interactive tutorial.

http://www.davesite.com/webstation/html/

Other how-to guides

http://htmlgoodies.earthweb.com/

http://look.html.tucows.com/

PowerHTML is a freeware editor for HTML. It can be obtained at:

http://library.thinkquest.org/16728/msie/powerhtml.html