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3 Python Tutorials and a Style Guide
Python is a great programming language to learn if you are new to programming and application development. Python is relatively easy to understand and learn, and it gives you, the programmer, advanced features that are easy to use. The Python programming language offers clear syntax, which help you start developing real world and practical modules and objects.
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PHP Slide Presentations
The PHP Presentation System at php.net hosts many PHP Slide Presentations. Here are all of their available presentations, listed by PHP category, which are provided by this site:
Component Libraries (14) Databases (9) Debugging (16) Extensions (11) Internals (16) LAMP (1) Localization and Internationalization (17) PEAR (2) PECL (1) PHP (104) PHP 5 (13) PHP-GTK (4) Performance (16) Presentation System (1) SRM (4) Scripting Languages (2) Security (15) Web Services (16) XML (7)
Top 16 Programming Diggs for Previous 30 Days
Here are what I judge to be the Top 16 Programming Diggs for the previous 30 days, from digg.com. These cover lots are topics, inclu ding Ajax, CSS, Javascript, HTML and browsers, programming theorems, Java and Linux, tableless forms, technical ebooks, computer science books, web design, Ferret with Ruby on Rails, error messages, and C programming. Here they are:
18 CompTIA Practice Exams
Here are 18 CompTIA Certification Study Practice Exams, along with answers with their explanations. These cover most the the CompTIA certification exams, including A+ Hardware, A+ Core Technologies, A+ Operating System, , Network+, Server+, i-Net+, Security+, IT Project+, Linux+, E-Biz+, System Infrastructure and Integration, and more.
32 Cisco Certification Practice Exams
Here are 32 Cisco Certification Practice Exams. These Cisco certification practice exams are detailed with explained answers. These cert study tests cover the following Cisco technologies and exams: CCIE, CID, MCNS, CCNP, CCNA, DESGN, BSCI, QOS, CME, Network Management, Voice of Data, CPIT, CSVPN, CSIDS, and wireless LAN.
CCNA Tutorials and Practice Exams
Here are some great Cisco CCNA Certification Tutorials, Practice Tests, and Study Guides from Attackprevention.com. Study these to increase your Cisco knowledge for passing Cisco's CCNA certification exam. The aim of this certification is to validate a solid foundation of networking skills, including a basic knowledge of the OSI reference model, networking protocols, Layer 2 switching concepts and protocols, routing concepts and protocols, and wide-area networking (WAN) connectivity.
- CCNA Certification-More Than a Piece of Paper
The Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification is the first Cisco certification most candidates aspire to and obtain. This document gives a good overview of what you need to know and understand to pass the CCNA certification exam.
- Tackling the CCNA Exam
This document helps you decide which CCNA study guides and software are available and provides tips on how to successfully pass the CCNA exam the very first time.
- The CCNA in Two-Part Harmony
Cisco will give you two CCNA exams to take and pass, this article goes over and details the first exam.
- Hardware and the OSI Model for the CCNA Exam
Get ready for your CCNA exam by learning about networking hardware and techniques.
- CCNA Self-Study: Network Media (The Physical Layer)
This self-study tutorial teaches you about what you should understand and calculate for your environment's required throughput, cabling distance, noise resistance, security, flexibility and future growth. You will learn how to set up and install the assembling and cabling for Cisco routers.
- CCNA Self-Study (ICND Exam): Extending Switched Networks with Virtual LANs
How VLANs work and give your organization a better operating network by controlling you network broadcasts.
- Cisco Certified Network Associate CCNA Exam Guide
This is an excellent CCNA study guide from ExamGuides.com
- CCNA Practice Questions: Basic IOS Configuration and Basic Serial WAN Connectivity
Here are 50 questions, along with explained answers, taken from the from the "Basic IOS Configuration and Basic Serial WAN Connectivity" objective of the CCNA exam.
- CertSavvy.com's CCNA Practice Test 1
32 free Cisco CCNA Practice Questions with answers explained.
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15 free CCNA exam questions with answers.
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15 free CCNA exam questions with answers.
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15 free CCNA exam questions with answers.
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15 free CCNA exam questions with answers.
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15 free CCNA exam questions with answers.
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15 free CCNA exam questions with answers.
- Cisco CCNA Exam #640-801 (Cisco Press, set 1)
Here are 10 questions with answers for the Cisco CCNA certification test.
- Cisco CCNA Exam #640-801 (Transcender, set 1)
Here are 10 more questions with answers for the Cisco CCNA certification test.
Various Certification Practice Exams
Here are Various Certification Practice Exams for 9 I.T. and vendor certifications. These certification practice exams include answers that are explained. They cover the following certification exams or areas: Web Sphere, IBM iSeries, DB/2, LPI (Linux Professional Institute), VPN, Checkpoint, Domino, CIW (webmaster), Citrix, HP, wireless networking, and Red Hat
Oracle and Novell Certification Practice Exams
Here are lots of Oracle and Novell Certification Practice Exams. These certification practice exams include answers that are explained in context. The Novell certification practice tests cover Networking, Netware 5.1 administration, Netware 6 administration, Service and Support, eDirectory Design and Implementation, and ZENworks for Desktops. The Oracle certification practice tests cover: Oracle 9i Database, Oracle 9i Performance Tuning, Oracle Forms, Oracle 9i Forms Developer, Oracle9i PL/SQL, Oracle 9iAS, and Oracle Java Certified Programmer.
SAP BAPI Learning Resources
If you need to learn more about BAPI (Business Application Programming Interface), then please read and use the SAP BAPI Learning Guide presented here. BAPI is a set of interfaces to object-oriented programming methods that help developers integrate 3rd party applications into SAP's R/3 software. To initiate and perform tasks such as uploading transactional data, BAPIs are implemented and stored in the R/3 system as remote function call (RFC) modules. The following BAPI tutorials and learning documents will describe what a BAPI is, how it is used, and where it fits into an integrated software environment. Examples, tips, tools, and expert advice are also included here to further your understanding on using BAPIs.
182 XHTML Tutorials and FAQs
Here are some great XHTML Tutorials and FAQs that will help you develop a compelling, user friendly, and functional web site. These pages also provide example XHTML code, and XHTML tutorial exercises. These will hopefully improve your XHTML abilities and skillset, and help you learn some neat XHTML web development techniques.
42 Microsoft Certification Practice Exams
Here are 42 Microsoft Certification Practice Exams with Answers covering most of Microsoft's Certifications. These cover both the MSCE and MSCD certification tracks, meaning both Windows engineering and Windows software development. Both Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 certification tests are available here.
3) New Free Computer IT Books, Publications & Book Sites:
Some of these web resources will be added to our Free IT Books page at Intelligentedu.com/free_computer_books.html and some will be added to our members site.
Over 100 I.T. and Programming Ebooks
Here are over 100 I.T. and Programming Ebooks. The areas covered include Cisco, Linux, Linux Programming, Microsoft, SQL Server, FreeBSD, TCPIP, Oracle PL-SQL, Perl Scripting, Java Programming, UML, WML, XML, Python, C#, Flash MX, and Unix. The links on this site go to braindumps.narod.ru/ebooks/. This site is mainly in Russian, but the ebooks are in English.
Over 100 Computer and Programming Ebooks
Here is a nice repository of over 100 computer and programming ebooks covering several areas, including Apache, Java, Javascript, Linux, Perl, PHP, PHP and MySQL, Samba, Security, Shell scripting, SQL, and Web design.
- Apache (3 ebooks)
- CGI (1 File)
- Java (6 ebooks)
- Javascript (6 ebooks)
- Linux (15 ebooks)
- Perl (12 ebooks)
- PHP (9 ebooks)
- PHP and MySQL (18 ebooks)
- SAMBA (2 ebooks)
- Security (6 ebooks)
- Shell (5 ebooks)
- SQL (11 ebooks)
- Web Design and Graphics (19 ebooks)
Programming and IT Books from digipromo.com
Here are some Programming and I.T. Ebooks for these topics: C++, Visual C++, Delphi, Extreme Programming, Java, Linux and Unix, DirectX, Zope, Oracle, SQL, and XML. Most of these ebooks are in pdf format, and some are in zip, exe, and doc formats.
C++
Learn Visual C++ 6
Programming Using OpenGL in Visual C++
C++ In 21 Days Second Edition
Linux C++ Programming How To
Programming Microsoft Visual C++
Database Programming with Visual C++ in 21 Days
Delphi
Mastering Delphi6
Mastering Delphi Graphics
Borland Delphi 4 in 21 Days
Delphi - Database application developers book
Extreme Programming
Extreme Programming Explored
Extreme Programming
Java
JSP Tutorial
Designing Enterprise Applications with Java 2EE
Java Database Programming with JDBC
Java Books
Java 2 In 21 Days
The Java API For XML Parsing Tutorial
Linux and Unix
Linux Programming
Shell Programming in 24 Hours
Unix eBook
Misc
DirectX 7 in 24 Hours
Zope Book
Oracle
Oracle DBA Survial Guide
Oracle 8 - Database Installation for Linux
Oracle 8i The Complete Reference
Troytech 1Z0-016 Oracle 8 Network Administration
SQL
SQL in 21 Days
XML
Programming - XML By Example
XML Application Developer's Guide
XML Programming in Java
40 Programming Ebooks
Programming Designs hosts about 40 Programming Ebooks for download, as listed below. These will give you knowledge and understanding of many programming languages, including C++, Java, Python, Perl, JavaScript, XML, Bash, Flash, and Visual Basic .NET. These ebooks are in zip, pdf, doc, chm, and rar formats.
- A Byte Of Pyhon
- Dive Into Python
- Non-Programmers Tutotial For Python
- Python in a NS
- Advanced Python Programming
- Perl Cookbook 2nd Ed
- Practical Mod Perl
- Learning Perl
- Learning Perl
- Perl in a NS
- Perl in 21 Days
- Beginners Guide to CGI in Perl
- Learning The Bash Shell
- Bash Beginners Guide
- Using Flash
- Advanced Bash Scripting Guide
- Using Components In Flash
- Flash And XML A Developers Guide
- Java Extreme Programming
- PHP MySQL & Apache In 24 Hours
- Secure PHP Development
- PHP and MySQL
- Advanced PHP For Web Professionals
- Making Use of PHP
- C++ Network Programming
- C++ Unleashed
- C++ Programming
- Introduction to Visual Basic.NET
- VB Script In a NS
- VB Dot NET Language 2nd Ed
- Visual Basic 6 in 21 Days
- Learn VB 6
- Thinking in C++
- C++ in 21 Days
- Object Oriented Perl
- Thinking In C++ 2nd Ed Vols 1 & 2
- Javascript Language Reference
- Learning XSLT
- Cocoa in a NS
- Iinput Output Port Programming
- Game Scripting in Python
Sun Certification Practice Exams and Ebooks
Here are several excellent Sun Certification Practice Exams and Ebooks. The Sun certification practice exams come with explained answers and they cover both Solaris system adimistration, network administration, Java programming, web component development, business component development, storage architect, backup and recovery, and security admistration. The ebooks cover the Solaris operating system, network administration, Solaris network security, Solaris security, Java programming, JavaBeans development, distributed Java programming, multithreaded programming, and Sparc user manuals.
Sun Certification Practice Exams with Explained Answers
- 310-011 - Sun Certified System Administrator for the Solaris 8 Operating Environment Part I
- 310-012 - Sun Certified System Administrator for the Solaris 8 Operating Environment Part II
- 310-014 - Sun Certified System Administrator for the Solaris 9 Operating Environment Part I
- 310-015 - Sun Certified System Administrator for the Solaris 9 Operating Environment Part II
- 310-025 - Sun Java Certified Programmer
- 310-035 - Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Platform 1.4
- 310-044 - Sun Certified Network Administrator for Solaris 9 Operating Environment
- 310-080 - Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) Web Component Developer
- 310-081 - Sun Certified Web Component Developer for the Java 2 Platform
- 310-090 - Sun Certified Business Component Developer for the Java 2 Platform
- 310-130 - Sun Certified Storage Architect
- 310-151 - Sun Certified Backup and Recovery Engineer
- 310-301 - Sun Certified Security Administrator
Sun Ebooks and Manuals
- Sun e-Books Solaris 8 Administrators Guide Vol-I
- Solaris 8 Administrators Guide Vol-II
- Soalris 8 Administrators Guide Vol-III
- Solaris - Sysadmin Guide
- Solaris - TCPIP Network Administration
- Solaris Environment Network Security
- Solaris Environment Security
- Sun - SL-275 Java Programming Language
- Sun - SL-291 JavaBeans Component Development
- Sun - SL-301 Distributed ProgrammingWith Java
- Sun Guide to Multithreaded Programming
- Sun MicroSPARC IIep Users Manual
- Sun SuperSPARC II Users Manual
- Sun UltraSPARC IIi Users Manual
- Sun UltraSPARC Users Manual
Free Book on Building Secure Web Applications
The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP.org) has written and published a free 293-page book detailing how to build and develop Secure Web Applications. This guide carefully explains many common web security issues, such as cross site scripting and SQL injection vulnerabilities. It provides information about securing most forms of web applications and services, along with real world guidance using J2EE, ASP.NET, and PHP samples. It also discusses Microsoft's Threat Risk Modeling strategy, as well as several other security methodologies, such as Trike, CVSS, AS4360, and Octave. Here is a mirror of the guide. OWASP also provides some excellent Web Security Presentations and Web Security Papers.
A Guide to Building Secure Web Applications and Web Services
(3.1mb, pdf format)
Table of Contents
- About The Open Web Application Security Project
- Introduction
- What Are Web Applications?
- Security Architecture And Design
- Secure Coding Principles
- Threat Risk Modeling
- Handling E-Commerce Payments
- Phishing
- Web Services
- Authentication
- Authorization
- Session Management
- Data Validation
- Interpreter Injection
- Canoncalization, Locale And Unicode
- Error Handling, Auditing And Logging
- File System
- Buffer Overflows
- Administrative Interfaces
- Cryptography
- Configuration
- Maintenance
- Denial Of Service Attacks
- Gnu Free Documentation License
- Php Guidelines
- Cheat Sheets
1 UML and 3 Visual Basic .Net Ebooks
This Microsoft Books and System Administration Resources page hosts mostly older Windows 2000 ebooks (pdf) for free download. At the bottom of this page, under the sub-section titled "Windows Development and Programming", are 3 ebooks that are of interest to Visual Basic .Net (VB.Net) developers. And one UML ebook is also hosted at this location. Here are the names of these 4 ebooks:
- Visual Basic
- Programming Visual Basic .NET
- Beginning Visual Basic .NET Database Programming
- Crash Course UML
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 Iintelligentedu.com/cat3.html
Database Systems
This course introduces graduate students to the foundations of database systems, focusing on basics such as the relational algebra and data model, schema normalization, query optimization, and transactions. The course features an extensive set of lecture notes and problem sets with solutions in the assignments section. In addition, exams are available.
Lecture Topics:
1) Introduction
2) The Relational Model
3) Schema Normalization
4) Database Design
5) Indexing and Access Methods
6) Buffer Pool Design and Memory Management
7) Join Algorithms
8) Query Optimization
9) Introduction to Transaction Processing
10) Recovery
11) Optimistic Concurrency Control
12) Recovery (cont.)
13) Degrees of Locking
14) Distributed Databases
15) Distributed Transactions
16) Replication in Database Systems
17) Search Engines
18) Stream Processing
19) Adaptive Query Processing
20) Online Query Processing
21) Sensor Networks
22) XML and Semantic Web
23) XML
Assignments:
Problem Set 1: (PDF) Solutions: (PDF)
Problem Set 2: (PDF) Solutions: (PDF) Supporting File: 6.830-ps2.tar.gz (GZ)
Problem Set 3: (PDF) Supporting File: TransactionTest.java (Java)
The Quizzes for the course, along with study questions, are provided below.
Three-Dimensional Modeling, Animation and Rendering Using Blender 3D Software
Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License. You can download the latest version of Blender.
Course Objectives:
- Installation of Blender software
- Understanding Blender Software Navigation
- Using Blender Transform Functions, File System and Object and Edit Functions
- Applying Materials and Textures to modeled objects
- Understanding Basic Keyframe Animation
- Positioning Lighting Objects in 3D Scenes
- Rendering to Image and Video files
- Develop 3D modeling strategies for creative use
Learning Units:Supplementary Material:
Unit 1: Basic Blender Navigation
Unit 2: Blender Transforms
Unit 3: Blender File System
Unit 4: Blender Object Functions
Unit 5: Edit Mode Tools
Unit 6: More Editing Tools
Unit 7: Blender Curve Tools
Unit 8: Blender Materials and Textures
Unit 9: Blender Lighting
Unit 10: Animation
Unit 11: Appending - Deformations - Camera
Unit 12: Blender Particle System
- 3-D Links
- Blender Hot Keys Cheat Sheet (pdf)
- Complete List of Blender Tutorials in PDF format
- Complete List of Blender Video Tutorials
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:
Info Tech Live
This is a technology and Internet news resource that provides industry specific information on Information Technology and new products via webcasts, interviews, expert advice and white papers.
Available Channels:
- Security - Live Events, Archived Events, Speakers, Interviews, Whitepapers
- Storage - Live Events, Archived Events, Speakers, Interviews, Whitepapers
- CRM - Live Events, Archived Events, Speakers, Interviews, Whitepapers
- Mobile Computing - Live Events, Archived Events, Speakers, Interviews, Whitepapers
- Marketing - Live Events, Archived Events, Speakers, Interviews, Whitepapers
- Content Management - Live Events, Archived Events, Speakers, Interviews, Whitepapers
- Web Services - Live Events, Archived Events, Speakers, Interviews, Whitepapers
Windows Forums
Active and helpful forums in several topical areas for Windows. Here are their Windows XP Forum topics:
- General Discussion
- Help & Support
- Basics
- New Users
- MediaCenter
- Configuration Manage
- Customize
- Device Driver
- Games
- Perform Maintain
- Messenger
- Print & Fax
- Security Admin
- Video
- Work Remotely
- Hardware
Startvbdotnet
This is a tutorial and support site for both Windows, ASP.NET, and Visual Basic .NET Web Development. It will help those developers who are upgrading from Visual Basic to Visual Basic .NET and from ASP to ASP.NET. It offers free VB .NET and ASP.NET tutorials and code.
Topics:
- .NET Defined
- OOP with VB
- VB Language
- Win Forms
- Windows Controls
- ADO .NET
- User Controls
- File Handling
- Multithreading
- Deployment
- XML Web Services
- Essential XML
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Online Training References for Web Design
A huge mega-reference (over 6,000 links) of information and articles about web design and development. It is dedicated to disseminating news and information with emphasis on elements of user experience, accessibility, web standards, cascading style sheets, events, books, information architecture, color, navigation and more.
- Accessibility
- Associations
- Books
- Cascading Style Sheets
- Color
- Dreamweaver
- Evaluation & Testing
- Events and Conferences
- Flash
- Information Architecture
- JavaScript
- Misc
- Navigation & Labeling
- PHP
- Sites & Blogs
- Standards
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- Typography
- Usability
- XML
Krugle - Code Search For Developers
Search for Open Source Code, Project, and Technical pages for developers. This technical search engine looks promising and offers some good results
7) I.T. Sites and Free Downloads Worth Mentioning:
The following programs are totally Free, no popups, adware, spyware, or shareware.DVD Shrink 3.2
DVD Shrink backs up your DVD disks. Use it together with your DVD burning program to make a backup copy of any DVD video disk. DVD Shrink will also burn your backup DVD, if you have installed the latest version of Nero. Also, DVD Shrink writes out files to your hard drive, which you can then burn with any DVD burning software. Download DVD Shrink (1069 kb)
StationRipper 1.13
Using StationRipper, you can 'record' lots of internet radio stations. It lets you obtain a list of available Shoutcast stations and then start recording them, creating a single MP3 file for each song the station plays. It also allows you to record up to 200 streams at one time and it will keep track of all the songs you download, so if that song gets slotted to be recorded in the future, it will skip it. Download StationRipper (505kb)
Naomi 3.2.90
Naomi is an advanced internet filtering program, easy to use and totally free, intended for families, and children in particular. This program constantly monitors all internet connections and filters out inappropriate online material. Naomi does not rely on a list of banned sites, but instead analyzes all the data coming into the network in real-time through any internet application, such as web browers, chat programs, news readers. Download Naomi (1380 kb)
mIRC 4.1
mIRC providea a user-friendly interface to use with the IRC network. It has the following features:It was designed with the objective of speeding up an IRC session while at the same time making easy to use. Download mIRC (571 kb)
- Colored text to ease reading
- Comprehensive Alias definitions
- Configurable multi-level popup menus
- DCC Send/Get/Chat/Resume
- Finger client
- Remote CTCP tool
- Simple Event handler
- Ident server
- Simple File-server
- URL Catcher
- Command history
- Function Key definitions
- Toolbar with tooltips
SmartFTP 1.0.970
SmartFTP allows you to transfer files across the Internet. It features an Explorer-like interface that is fully customizable and supports drag-and-drop functions. Multiple FTP connections can be opened at the same time, and you can copy files from one remote host to another. It also includes an interface for FTP-specific search engines such as FTPSearch and Filez.com. It can resume broken downloads, keeps a global history, does background transfers, handles proxy addresses, performs passive transfer mode, and can perform recursive downloads, uploads, and deletes. Download SmartFTP (5466 kb)
WinGet 1.9
WinGet is a download accelerator that can increase download speeds. Its acceleration is obtained by splitting the file being downloaded into several parts and downloading these parts at the same time. You can resume broken downloads if your connection is lost for any reason. It can fully integrate into the browser, and has HTTP and SOCKS proxy support. Download WinGet (603 kb)
8) Question of the Month about Technical Training:Each month Scott Turton will answer a current or important question that we have received about computer and IT training and career development.
March 2007 Question of the Month:What are some good methods to slow down and even stop spam from coming into my email inbox?
Spam is a real and growing issue on the Internet today. It appears to be increasing and the perpetrators are getting better at it as time goes by. We need to become more sophisticated in our efforts to fight back and stop spam.
- Answer:
This recent Forbes article details 8 ways to deter and stop spam in its tracks:Here is another good article offering 18 methods to use for keeping spam from getting into your inbox.
- Go Incognito - Never post your e-mail address on a public site, even your personal Web site.
- Watch Out For The Little Boxes - E-mail users often receive spam because they've unknowingly requested the messages.
- Get An Alias - Getting an e-mail address is as easy as signing your name, with ubiquitous free programs like Yahoo.
- Sort And Screen - Many Internet service providers and e-mail services provide spam filtering.
- Chose Your Address Wisely - The more unusual your address, the less likely you'll be spammed.
- Ignore, Ignore, Ignore - Never, ever respond to spam.
- Guard Personal Information - Never confirm any personal information via e-mail.
- Keep Your Money In Your Wallet - Never buy anything from spammers.
In this article, John Buckman, developer of the MailShield anti-spam/antirelay program discusses the impact of spam, and describes 5 strategies for stopping spammers in their tracks.
I hope this help you.
Scott Turton
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