============================================================ Newsletter for Computer IT Education, Training & Tutorial Resources *** ISSUE #29A - January 2003 *** http://www.intelligentedu.com/ This Newsletter is only sent to its subscribers and is available in early February, 2003 on the web at http://www.intelligentedu.com/newsletter29.html Newsletter Archives are here: http://www.intelligentedu.com/newsletter.html Subscribe and unsubscribe instructions are at the end. Please forward this newsletter to all your friends and associates who might be interested! ============================================================ 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 7)... New Desktop and Office Application Training Sites 8)... I.T. Sites Worth Mentioning 9)... Frequently Asked Questions about Technical Training 10)... Please Support Our Computer Training Mission ============================================================ ============================================================ 1) Editor's Greeting: Hello everyone, and welcome to our new subscribers! I hope everyone had a great New Year holiday. This 29th issue of our free semimonthly email newsletter for Computer IT Education, Training, & Tutorial Resources provides you with the latest Free online IT Training Resources that we have recently discovered and researched. This newsletter is free to anyone subscribing (instructions at bottom, no username/password is needed). To access our member site, however, you do need a user name and password - registering as a member of Intelligentedu.com costs $10 for two months, for more information please see below 'Become a Member of Intelligentedu.com'. 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 35 computer, IT and programming learning and tutorial web sites. By means of this email newsletter, you have knowledge of and access to these sites before our web site visitors do. This newsletter is also available to subscribers in HTML format at this special url: http://www.intelligentedu.com/current_news.html *** Current News *** I receive many great comments and positive feedback about this newsletter. Some of you have said you love the sites I give you, but sometimes there are too many. So, to reduce the size and make it more manageable, this newsletter will now be issued twice a month (semimonthly) starting this month in January, 2003. We will be launching a new member site for Microsoft Office and other desktop productivity applications in the near future. This new site will provide you with the best free online training and tutorials available for these apps. More information will follow soon. I'd like to personally wish you the best with your computer studies and learning. Warm Regards, Scott Turton Newsletter Editor and Webmaster scott_turton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.intelligentedu.com/ ************************************************************ Please Visit One of Our Sponsors and request more information - doing this enables us to bring you these great free computer and IT training resources every month: --------------------------------------------------------------- University of Phoenix Online: Advance your career: http://pontly.com/clk/aftauserafthepausulde Search for IT Training: http://tinyurl.com/1nvg DeVry: Online degrees for working adults? http://iashel.com/clk/guntuanglangan Westwood College of Technology: http://yarnas.com/clk/menweizhoubingzhen ITT Technical Institute: Choose from their many programs: http://ipodra.com/clk/kaitanyunnuodiao American InterContinental University Online: http://didtal.com/clk/baizhuankanliumei University Alliance Schools: Accelerated degrees and flexible online courses with streaming video lectures http://elilip.com/clk/tuonongzangtuzhuai Computer Colleges: http://tinyurl.com/1nvm Find Computer Programming Training: http://tinyurl.com/1nvj Free to Sell - The Ultimate eBook! 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We have done all the web research and presentation work for you so you can concentrate solely on your computer training. For short FAQ Answers, please see the end of this newsletter. The total price to join as a member is only $10 total for 2 months, $18.50 for 4 months or $25.50 for 6 months. The funds generated will assist us to help all those seeking IT education and application development training. Here's the link to see what's available on our member's site and to sign up: http://www.intelligentedu.com/sign-up/index.html ************************************************************ ************************************************************ *** Free IT Training Materials and Books *** This section of our site contains over 2,000 free IT, computer and programming training resource links: http://www.intelligentedu.com/free_it_training_materials_and_books.html *** Our Newly Researched Free Online Computer Training *** Containing over 12,000 free IT training and tutorial resources, this section of our site is available only to our newsletter subscribers and web site members: http://www.intelligentedu.com/newly_researched_free_training.html *** Free e-Book: "Understanding Computer Security" *** Our new e-book contains the best information from U.S. government agency computer security papers and guides and presents it in a coherent and understandable manner. My hope is that this e-book will make computer security easier to learn. Click here to receive your Free Copy: http://intelinfo.hypermart.net/Understanding_Computer_Security.zip (553 kb). When unzipped it is a windows executable. ============================================================ ============================================================ 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. Tutorials and Other Publications from Javacommerce.com: http://www.javacommerce.com/contents.htm All the tutorials and publications on this site are listed here - content includes XML, Java, CORBA, Unix and Linux. ************************************************************ Programming Language Tutorial Downloads: http://www.mnw.net/akelly/tutor.html Download tutorials that teach you ADA, Assembler, C, C++, Pascal, HTML, Java, JavaScript, Perl, SQL, and Visual Basic. Also has links to Delphi and Fortran tutorials. ************************************************************ Java Programming Language Tutorial: http://www.omg.unb.ca/~jzhang/java/index.html This free online course introduces the Java programming language to persons who have already been exposed to at least one programming language, Program structure, Input and Output, Simple DataStructures, Compilation and execution of programs. It is given in 11 lectures and 4 assignments. ************************************************************ Basic Course In Special Effects and Game Development In Java: http://www.mandomartis.com/onlinecourses/courses.html The first course being offered here is their course teaching you special effects and game programming in the form of Java applets. For every special effect applet, the author reviews how to implement it as a plugin for the Visual Applet Configurator. This course covers the development of simple applet games and net games with net game servers. It also teaches application development, client-server systems and Java's graphics engine, but on a smaller scale. ************************************************************ C++ Language Tutorial: http://www.omg.unb.ca/~jzhang/cpp/cpplist.html This tutorial teaches the C++ programming language but assumes that the student has already attained a reasonable proficiency in C programming. It is composed of 12 chapters which should be studied in order since topics are introduced in a logical order and build upon topics introduced in previous chapters. ************************************************************ C Tutorial: http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/ctutorial.html This study guide for C language programming will help you write programs quickly and effectively. For each topic a graphic will help illustrate the main ideas being taught. There are also interactive exercises for each topic. ************************************************************ Magnus?s Python Page: http://hetland.org/python/ This site contains several good tutorials on how to program in general and with Python. Instant Hacking gives you an introduction to the art of programming, with examples written in Python. Instant Python shows you how to program in Python if you already know how to program. ************************************************************ Featured XML Resources: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/offers/lp/xml/ Free online XML tutorials span the range from pure technology through detailed explanations of how to build XML-based projects using IBM tools and middleware. This collection includes Web- based tutorials, on-demand Webcasts and an online XML pre- certification test. Here are some of the tutorials: Introduction to XML: http://tinyurl.com/3zl3 Process XML using XML Query: http://tinyurl.com/3zl4 Many more XML tutorials: http://tinyurl.com/3zl7 ************************************************************ LinuxSecurity.com: Documentation: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/news/articles_documentation-1.html This site provides many articles and tutorials on how to secure your Linux running machines, covering firewalls, intrusion detection, network and server security, and more. ************************************************************ College Resource and Instructor Support Program: Learning Resources: http://snap.nlc.dcccd.edu/learn/index.html This is the site for Unix instructors and aficionados to share ideas. Hosted training materials are available, as well as links to other learning sites. ************************************************************ Online Tutorials: http://www.webdevelopersnotes.com/tutorials/index.php3 Learning materials covering Basic HTML, Advanced HTML, Javascript, Flash, Advanced Flash, and Structured Query Language (SQL). ************************************************************ CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) in 7 Easy Steps: http://www.javascript-page.com/css/ In just seven simple steps, you can learn how to effectively utilize CSS and program with the pros. ************************************************************ PHP Tutorials: http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorial_index.php This is a PHP and MySQL resource website for website design that has PHP and MySQL tutorials. Here are their user submitted PHP Tutorials: http://www.phpfreaks.com/ututorials.php ************************************************************ AXCEL216's MAX Speed Windows Tricks, Secrets Bugs Fixes: http://members.aol.com/axcel216/news.htm This page has many tips, tuning help, and examples for Windows, including downloads, secret files and HTML authoring advice. ************************************************************ ASP.NET QuickStart Tutorial: http://docs.aspng.com/quickstart/aspplus/default.aspx This is a series of ASP.NET samples and supporting commentary designed to quickly acquaint developers with the syntax, architecture, and power of the ASP.NET Web programming framework. The QuickStart samples are designed to be short, easy-to- understand illustrations of ASP.NET features ************************************************************ CSharpFriends.com Tutorial Index: http://www.csharpfriends.com/Members/main/Tutorials/ These tutorials will show you some of the most common tasks you will have to master as a C# developer in ASP.Net. ============================================================ ============================================================ 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. Creating Applications with Mozilla: http://books.mozdev.org/chapters/index.html Mozilla is not just a web browser. It is also a framework for building cross-platform applications using standards such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), XML languages such as the XML-based User-interface Language (XUL), eXtensible Binding Language (XBL), and Resource Description Framework (RDF). This book explains how applications are created with Mozilla and provides step-by-step information that shows how to create your own programs using Mozilla's powerful cross-platform development framework. It also includes examples of different existing applications to demonstrate the possibilities of Mozilla development. ************************************************************ C Elements of Style: http://www.oualline.com/style/index.html C Elements of Style was published by M&T books in 1992. An abbreviated copy of the book is presented here. This book covers the C language and is a bit out dated. However it still contains a lot of good advice. ************************************************************ Internet Application Workbook: http://philip.greenspun.com/internet-application-workbook/ This is the textbook for the MIT course "Software Enginering for Internet Applications". The course is intended for juniors and seniors in computer science. We assume that they know how to write a computer program and debug it. We do not assume knowledge of any particular programming languages, standards, or protocols. The most concise statement of the course goal is that "The student finishes knowing how to build amazon.com by him or herself." ************************************************************ OpenGL Books: Red Book: The OpenGL Programming Guide: The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL: http://tinyurl.com/411i Blue Book: The OpenGL Reference Manual: The Official Reference Document to OpenGL: http://tinyurl.com/411h ============================================================ ============================================================ 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 Understanding Networked Computing: http://www.si.umich.edu/Classes/540/ This course provides you nice lecture slides to study and assignments to try. It covers a wide range of content in networked and distributed computing. Examples from the Internet are used where applicable; eBay serves as the example. ************************************************************ Computer Architecture and Engineering : http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs152/ This course on architecture and engineering gets into a lot of detail about how a computer operates, offers good lecture slides in pdf, ppt, and ps formats. ************************************************************ CS519: Operating Systems: http://discolab.rutgers.edu/classes/cs519/ http://discolab.rutgers.edu/classes/cs519/sp2000/ A graduate course in Operating Systems focusing on advanced OS topics. This page has good Lecture Notes and Readings: http://discolab.rutgers.edu/classes/cs519/sp2000/class-notes/notes.html ************************************************************ CSE591: Hardware-Software Co-design: http://www.eas.asu.edu/~cse591b/#_Lecture_Slides In the context of this course, Hardware-software co-design refers to the concurrent and co-operative design of hardware and software components of an embedded system. ============================================================ ============================================================ 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: TheStaffingGuide.com: http://www.thestaffguide.com/offerings.html This is is converting all of their study material for CompTIA A+ Certification to a free site. Seventy percent of the Core is already posted and they will be posting the Operating System objectives over the weekend or sooner. ************************************************************ As Simple as Photoshop: http://www.digicollage.com/asap/ This site offers you two free online Photoshop ebooks: The Concepts: http://www.digicollage.com/etp/basics.htm All The Tools - animated Photoshop Toolbox reference: http://www.digicollage.com/etp/tool/index.htm ============================================================ ============================================================ 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 Networking Search Engine and Resource: http://ns.geckil.com/~harvest/index.html/ An excellent technical search and link site with many web resources in many areas. Here is their tutorial page: http://www.geckil.com/~harvest/tutorials/index.html ************************************************************ LII.org: Librarians' Index to the Internet - Computer Topics: http://lii.org/search/file/computers This is the Computer Topics page for this index to the web for librarians. Here is a search for computer tutorial: http://tinyurl.com/40zw ============================================================ ============================================================ 7) New Desktop and Office Application Training Sites: These web sites will be added to of Free Office and Desktop Training page at http://www.intelligentedu.com/office.html . Also, check out our expanded MS Office 2000 Free Training page here: http://www.intelligentedu.com/office_2000.html The first 3 chapters of this online training are available for Free: Microsoft Word 2000: http://www.vtco.com/word2000.htm?dealercode=A168 Microsoft Excel 2000: http://www.vtco.com/excel2000.htm?dealercode=A168 Microsoft Project 2000: http://www.vtco.com/project2000.htm?dealercode=A168 Microsoft Access 2000: http://www.vtco.com/access2000.htm?dealercode=A168 Microsoft Outlook 2000: http://www.vtco.com/outlook2000.htm?dealercode=A168 ************************************************************ Training Handouts: http://www.utexas.edu/its/training/handouts/index.html These training handout guides provide you information for learning and using Microsoft Office applications and other software and systems. ************************************************************ Microsoft Word Quick Reference Cards: Use Formatting Footnotes to avoid footnote problems: http://www.microsystems.com/PDFS/formattingfootnotes.pdf Use Troubleshooting Footnotes to solve them in existing documents: http://www.microsystems.com/PDFS/troubleshootingfootnotes.pd Cross-References: Easy steps for using cross-references successfully: http://www.microsystems.com/PDFS/crossreference.pdf Why Won't My Document Compare? Quick troubleshooting for document compare problems: http://www.microsystems.com/PDFS/qrccompare.pdf What's Wrong with My Document? Proven ways to fix broken Word documents: http://www.microsystems.com/PDFS/qrcfixing.pdf Formatting Text Using Styles: An at-a-glance reference to help you get started with styles: http://www.microsystems.com/PDFS/formattingwithstyles.pdf Troubleshooting Styles: Quick answers for common style problems: http://www.microsystems.com/PDFS/troubleshootingstyles.pdf ============================================================ ============================================================ 8) I.T. Sites Worth Mentioning: Ibiblio's Linux Archive: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ Ibiblio archives over 171 gigabytes of Linux programs and documentation freely available for download via FTP and/or WWW access. Think of them as your free public library of Linux software. Here are the Linux HOWTOs in pdf format: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/pdf/ ************************************************************ KBAlertz.com: http://www.kbalertz.com This site's free service, called Knowledge Base Alert, allows you to select all software you are interested in keeping updated. Then, whenever Microsoft issues new support or knowledge base articles, they notify you by email. ************************************************************ Free SQL Scripts: http://www.umachandar.com/resources.htm This personal site features an excellent collection of SQL 6.x/7.x/2000 scripts all written by the site owner ============================================================ ============================================================ 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: Do you know of any free Java courses with teachers and student interacting and providing feedback. Answer: Yes! Here are the details about a New Free J2EE Training Course. Sang Shin, Sun Microsystems, and Sameer Tyagiare teaching a free class on J2EE Programming. The course material is provided online, and an online study group (via yahoo groups) has formed. There is alot of excitement in the community about this class. Yes, it's already started - but only recently. It continues through early March - you will study and learn about: - Web Application Architecture - Servlets / JSP - Security - EJB - JMS - and more The Yahoo group home page for this course is here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/j2eerocks For more information about this free J2EE Programming training session see this page: http://www.plurb.com/j2ee/ Scott Turton Computer Education, Training & Tutorial Resources http://www.intelligentedu.com ============================================================ ============================================================ 10) Please Support Our Training Mission http://www.intelligentedu.com/support.html How You Can Support Our IT Training Mission Please help support Intelligentedu.com's Computer and IT Education and Training Mission by visiting our sponsors below. 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