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In This Issue:
1)... Editor's Greeting
2)... The Best New Free I.T. Training &
Tutorial Sites
3)... New Free I.T. Books & Book Sites
4)... University Computer Science Course
Sites
5)... The Best Suggested Sites from Website
Users
6)... New I.T. Training & Tutorial Link
Sites
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Training Sites
8)... I.T. Sites Worth Mentioning
9)... Frequently Asked Questions about Technical
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10)... Please Support Our Computer Training
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1) Editor's Greeting:
Hello everyone, and welcome to our new subscribers!
This is the 2nd edition of our January issue
of our free semimonthly email newsletter
for Computer IT Education, Training, &
Tutorial Resources providing you with the
latest Free online IT Training Resources
that we have recently discovered and researched.
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My desire is that these free resources will
help you with your computer education and
training and are tools to advance your IT
career. Our main mission is the training
of those less fortunate who are seeking to
become computer literate, both technically
and from a user's perspective.
In this issue we describe and link to a total
of 33 computer, IT and programming learning
and tutorial web sites. By means of this
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*** Current News ***
This issue of our newsletter is the second
edition of January's newsletter. As I stated
in the first January newsletter, to reduce
the size of this newsletter and to make it
more manageable, it will now be issued twice
a month (semimonthly) starting this month
in January, 2003. Instead of receiving 50-75
IT learning sites in one email, you'll now
get 20-35 sites in 2 emails per month.
I' wish you the best with your computer studies
and learning.
Warm Regards,
Scott Turton
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2) The Best New Free I.T. Training &
Tutorial Sites:
This section of our newsletter contains the
best new free IT training and tutorial sites
that we have found and researched in the
last few weeks. These resources will be added
to our Free IT Training & Courses page
at http://www.intelligentedu.com/cat1.html, our Free IT Tutorials and Guides page at
http://www.intelligentedu.com/cat2.html, or to our members' site.
Techieindex eLearning:
http://www.techieindex.com/elearn/
This site offers you completely free online
IT Training Courses in Microsoft .Net, Linux,
PHP, Java, ASP, C, C++, XML, and SQL. From
their home page at http://www.techieindex.com you can also access their forums, experts
advice, articles, and white papers.
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Computer Arts Web Tutorials:
http://www.computerarts.co.uk/tutorials/web/
Get the latest Web design techniques, step-by-step
form the experts - includes training on Photoshop,
Flash, HTML, and Graphic Design.
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Workshop Tutorials - Multimedia Modules:
http://mll.arizona.edu/workshops.shtml?tutorialpdfs
Many tutorials in pdf format are offered
for free for these applications and topics:
After Effects 5, Bryce 5, Cool Edit Pro,
Director, Dreamweaver 4 & MX, Final Cut
Pro 2, Flash 5, Go Live, iMovie 2, Lightwave
3D 6.5, Media 100, Photoshop 6 & 7, Premiere
6, QTVR Authoring Studio, VR Worx 2, Browsers
Overview, File Management, Office XP, Scanning.
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Todd.Trinh.Com:
http://todd.trinh.com/
Provides good, free IT certification study
guides and notes. Focuses on Computer Networking
related information such as: Computer Hardware,
Networking Essentials, Windows NT Workstation,
NT Server, NT Enterprise, Windows 2000 Professional,
2000 Server, 2000 Advanced Server, TCP/IP,
Cisco Routing, Switching, Internet and Web
Page Design.
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How To MCSE:
http://www.beepcastle.de/mcse/
Offers free certification guides, including
these:
Red Hat Linux (RHCE) Study Notes:
http://www.beepcastle.de/mcse/redhat.htm
Administering Microsoft SQL Server 7.0:
http://www.beepcastle.de/mcse/sql7.htm
OSI Reference / Network Protocols:
http://www.beepcastle.de/mcse/ciscoccna.htm
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The Certification Hub:
http://www.thecertificationhub.com/
27 Questions & Answers on A+ Core Hardware:
http://www.thecertificationhub.com/.../aplus_core_hardware_test_bank.htm
26 Questions & Answers on A+ Operating
System Technologies:
http://www.thecertificationhub.com/.../aplus_os_tech_test_bank.htm
33 Questions & Answers for Network+ Exam:
http://www.thecertificationhub.com/networkplus/networkplus_test_bank.htm
44 Questions & Answers for i-Net+ Exam:
http://www.thecertificationhub.com/inetplus/inetplus_test_bank.htm
24 Questions & Answers for Windows 2000
Server 70-215 Exam:
http://www.thecertificationhub.com/mcse_mcp/70-215/70-215_test_bank.htm
20 Questions & Answers for Windows 2000
Profession 70-210 Exam:
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Cisco Systems: Cisco Networking Academy:
CCNA Student Curriculum - Semesters 1 - 4:
http://www.esu10.k12.ne.us/cisco/curr/
CCNA Instructor's Guide Curriculum - Semesters
1 - 4:
http://www.esu10.k12.ne.us/cisco/curr-instructor/
Instructor Notebooks:
http://www.esu10.org/cisco/notebooks/
Other Cisco Academies:
http://www.esu10.k12.ne.us/cisco/resources/passwords.html
Click on Texas Educ. Service Center and Cabrillo
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Cottontail OS Development Library:
http://www.0xfi.com/oslib/
Here you will be able to download virtually
any programming-oriented information that
is available for computer hardware devices,
processors, and operating system development.
This site gives you free e-books, hardware
reference manuals, programming guides, datasheets,
and source code on many types of computer
subjects.
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MIS532 Lecture Notes:
http://afis.ucc.ie/tbutler/MIS%20532%20Lecture%20Notes.htm
This site provides these well written network
and hardware related learning resources:
Networking Book:
http://afis.ucc.ie/tbutler/Networking%20Basics/book/home.htm
Hardware Fundamentals and Intel
6th and 7th
Generation Architectures:
http://afis.ucc.ie/tbutler/.../Hardware%20Fundamentals.doc
Hard Disk Drive Fundamentals
and Basic File
Management:
http://afis.ucc.ie/tbutler/.../File%20Management%20Systems.doc
The Drama of the Interrupted
CPU:
http://afis.ucc.ie/.../The%20Drama%20of%20the%20Interrupted%20CPU.doc
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IWS Computer Security & Information Security:
http://www.iwar.org.uk/comsec/
Lots of computer security documentation and
materials, here are some of them:
Computer Security Course:
http://www.iwar.org.uk/comsec/resources/security-lecture/index.html
Selecting Good Passwords:
http://www.iwar.org.uk/comsec/resources/pwd/pwd.htm
DDoS - 15 Preventive Measures:
http://www.iwar.org.uk/comsec/resources/dos/ddos_en.htm
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Laudon's MIS: Lecture Notes
http://dheise.andrews.edu/courses/MIS/laudon/index.htm
These lecture chapters are based on the book
Management Information Systems: Organization
and Technology, 6th edition. They are very
readable and enjoyable. Here are the slides
to go with these notes: http://dheise.andrews.edu/courses/MIS/ppt.htm
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Computer Help:
http://www.webtechgeek.com/center-Frame-Computer-help.htm
Teaches you how to troubleshooting, fix and
repair your PC, includes help with fixing
and tuning Windows.
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Paul Lomax's Top 15 VB Tips and Tricks:
http://vb.oreilly.com/news/vb_tips_1098.html
This page is very helpful to Visual Basic
programmers, giving you some insightful tips.
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Microsoft Product Support Center FAQs:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[LN];faqs
Gain access to Microsoft's searchable knowledgebase,
step-step instructions and how to articles,
software and hardware FAQs, webcasts, downloads,
and newsgroup views.
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3) New Free Computer IT Books, Publications
& Book Sites:
Some of these web resources will be added
to our Free IT Books page at http://www.intelligentedu.com/free_computer_books.html and some will be added to our members site.
Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO:
http://www.dwheeler.com/s.../Secure-Programs-HOWTO/index.html
This online book provides a set of design
and implementation guidelines for writing
secure programs for Linux and Unix systems.
Such programs include application programs
used as viewers of remote data, web applications
(including CGI scripts), network servers,
and setuid/setgid programs. This is version
3.005, dated 30 December 2002.
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The Software Patterns Management Briefing:
http://www1.bell-labs.com/user/cope/Patterns/WhitePaper/
This book, published in 1996, was an early
articulation of the principles, values, and
practices behind the pattern discipline.
Still timeless today, it is organized around
a body of dozens of example patterns. It
covers a wide range of topics ranging from
pattern forms, to pattern languages, to the
history of software patterns, and pattern
ethics.
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Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming
Using C++:
http://saturn.med.nyu.edu/~hewz/html/C-prog/c++/tutor/tutorial/
In this course, object-orientation is introduced
as a new programming concept and as a concept
which makes developing of projects easier.
This is not a course for learning the C++
programming language. If you are interested
in learning the language itself, try C++
Annotations at http://www.icce.rug.nl/documents/cplusplus/
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Macmillan Visual C++ 6 Frankenbook:
http://saturn.med.nyu.edu/~hewz/html/vc6/
The Macmillan Visual C++ 6 Frankenbook is
an online compilation of sample chapters
from our best-selling books, providing tips
on the Visual C++ environment, creating and
designing dialog boxes and menus for your
application, using and creating controls,
and database programming.
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Guide for Solaris System Administration I:
http://web.archive.org/.../admin-guide-v1.pdf
(pdf, 1.5mb)
Guide for Solaris System Administration II:
http://web.archive.org/.../it/admin-guide-v2.pdf
(pdf. 1.6mb)
Unix System Administration (Solaris):
http://web.archive.org.../solaris/html/index.html
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4) University Computer Science Course Sites
Free to Browse and Study:
These web sites will be added to our Free
University IT Course Webs page at http://www.intelligentedu.com/cat3.html
Web Based Information Systems:
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~zaiane/courses/cmput499/
Web technology and Applications, excellent
course slides, look under Course Content
column. Covers Protocols, HTML, Animation,
Forms & CGI, JavaScript, Dynamic Pages,
Perl & Cookies, Java Applets, DBMS &
WWW. SGML/XML, Web Mining, CORBA & SOAP,
and
Security Issues.
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Glyn Davis Web Site:
http://sbm-connect.tees.ac.uk/glynwork/
The Internet Modules on this site teach you
the following topics: Internet Business Applications,
Introduction to e-Business and Technology,
e-Business Concepts, Internet Marketing,
E-Commerce, Database Marketing, and e-Marketing.
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Computer Graphics and Modeling Course:
http://www.eecs.tulane.edu/www/graphics/
This course is about computer graphics and
modeling, and focuses on 3D graphics, which
is to create 2D pictures of objects that
appear similar to the way our eyes view the
3D objects in our physical world.
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EE382C Embedded Software Systems:
http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/~eal/ee290n/
This research seminar studies models of computation
and programming language semantics used for
the specification and modeling of real-time
and reactive electronic systems.
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5) The Best Suggested Sites from our Website
Users - Every month we feature the best suggested
IT training and tutorial sites from our website
visitors. Here are this month's sites:
Linux Shell Scripting Tutorial:
http://linux.nixcraft.com/lsst/
http://download.nixcraft.com/pdf/lsst.zip (pdf, 764kb)
Linux File System Tutorial:
http://linux.nixcraft.com/filetutorial/
http://download.nixcraft.com/pdf/lfst.zip (pdf, 355kb)
Linux Command Reference:
http://linux.nixcraft.com/linux_commands/
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CertificationTalk.com:
http://www.certificationtalk.com
An online community of engineers preparing
for their CCNA, CCNP, CCSP or CCIE Certifications.
You'll find free downloads, technical tips,
on-line technical support, etc.
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6) New Computer & IT Training & Tutorial
Link & Resource Sites:
These web sites will be added to our IT Links
and Resources page at http://www.intelligentedu.com/cat6.html
INFOMINE: Search engine for Scholarly Internet
Resource Collections:
http://infomine.ucr.edu/
Try a search for "computer tutorial".
Many good search results are returned.
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Search the Federal Government through FirstGov:
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/locators/search/index.html
Search Federal, state, and foreign government
websites using GPO Access' Pathway Indexer
and GovBot search engines. A search on "Java"
returns the following free course:
Java GUI Seminar Syllabus:
http://tuts.cit.nih.gov/java_gui_evans/contents.htm
This is a course in the Java programming
language, and will cover Graphical User Interface(GUI)
features of Java 1.2. It is assumed that
participants are familiar with Object-oriented
Methodology (OOM) and the Java programming
language
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2000 Free Training page here: http://www.intelligentedu.com/office_2000.html
Center for Academic Technology:
http://cat.lmu.edu/tutorials.html
This site provides tutorials in many software
and desktop applications. These learning
documents are used in their training sessions.
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TechTrax Archives:
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/..CMD=Archives
Enter a search term such as "Excel"
or "Outlook" to obtain the tutorial
articles on this site. Also, their Library
lists code and file downloads, as well as
articles:
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/...ID=4
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Microsoft Word MVP Tutorials:
http://www.mvps.org/word/Tutorials/index.html
Check out these in-depth Word tutorials written
by Microsoft insiders who really know how
Word operates. This site includes links to
Word tutorials at other websites that allow
no-charge access. Also included is a link
to the Microsoft Office 2000/Visual Basic
Programmer's Guide:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/...visualbasicprogrammersguide.asp
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8) I.T. Sites Worth Mentioning:
Computer Security Test Sites:
http://lists.gpick.com/pages/Security_Test_Sites.htm
Offers several excellent links to security
related web sites that will verify the security,
or insecurity, of your computer. These sites
will give your machine a thorough security
workout.
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Oldversion.com:
http://www.oldversion.com
Older versions of software can be taken offline
and can be difficult to locate. And then
the new, updated versions are many times
larger and have features that you aren't
in need of. This site provides you with the
non-current versions of popular software.
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Resolving MS DLL Version Conflicts:
http://support.microsoft.com/servicedesks/fileversion/
Different Microsoft applications can install
different versions of the same DLL and this
can often create major problems. This useful
site gives you a solution to sort out the
mess.
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9) Frequently Asked Questions about Technical
Training:
Each month Scott Turton will answer one of
the frequently asked questions we receive
about computer and IT training and career
development.
January 2003 FAQ #2: When should I use a
scripting language like Perl, PHP, or Tcl,
and when should I use a system programming
language like C or Java?
Answer:
This is an excellent question that should
be answered after analyzing the requirements
of the application in question. A page at
Tcl Developer Exchange does a good job of
answering this question. It states that you
should use a scripting language when the
application as the following attributes:
* The main task of the application is to
integrate and coordinate a set of existing
components or applications.
* The application must manipulate a variety
of different things.
* It must have a graphical user interface.
* The application does a lot of string processing.
* The functionality of the application will
evolve rapidly over time.
* It must be easy to extend and customize
the application in the field.
* The application must run on a diverse set
of platforms.
On the other hand, if an application has
these attributes, then a system programming
language should be used:
* The application implements complex algorithms
or data structures.
* Execution speed is critical (e.g. the application
must frequently scan datasets with tens of
thousands of elements).
* The functions of the application are well-defined
and slow to change.
You can read the whole article here: http://www.tcl.tk/advocacy/choose.html
Scott Turton
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