Dec 2002 Computer IT Education & Training Newsletter
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Newsletter for Computer IT Education,
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In This Issue:
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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
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1) Editor's Greeting:
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This is the 28th issue of our free monthly email newsletter for
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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.
Codenotes.com:
http://www.codenotes.com/do/articles
Code Notes is designed for the software developer who needs to
come up to speed quickly. It drills down to the core aspects of a
technology and focuses on the key elements needed to implement it
immediately thus presenting highly technical material in a format
and style that is efficient and instantly useful. It bridges the
gap between comprehensive manuals and pocket references.
VB.NET:
http://www.codenotes.com/do/books/bookArticles?bookID=1
XML:
http://www.codenotes.com/do/books/bookArticles?bookID=2
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http://www.codenotes.com/do/books/bookArticles?bookID=3
Web-Based UI:
http://www.codenotes.com/do/books/bookArticles?bookID=4
Java:
http://www.codenotes.com/do/books/bookArticles?bookID=5
J2EE:
http://www.codenotes.com/do/books/bookArticles?bookID=6
ASP.NET:
http://www.codenotes.com/do/books/bookArticles?bookID=7
Oracle 9i:
http://www.codenotes.com/do/books/bookArticles?bookID=8
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Vision2Learn:
http://212.89.82.81/channels/default.asp
Here is a series of free courses in Information Technology and
Business and Personal Development. Click on the "Courses Link".
The IT courses are: First Steps in IT, Next Steps in IT, and
Wizard on the Web. IT units include desktop publishing, database
techniques, website design and creation, and e-commerce.
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Grooveyweb Tutorials:
Programming (Games, VB, C, Assembly):
http://www.groovyweb.uklinux.net/?page_name=programming
Operating Systems (Windows, Linux):
http://www.groovyweb.uklinux.net/?page_name=operating%20systems
Site Map of all their tutorials:
http://www.groovyweb.uklinux.net/?page_name=sitemap
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TrinityOS:
http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~dranch/LINUX/index-linux.html
TrinityOS is a step by step, example driven, HowTo on building a
very functional Linux box with strong security in mind. It
covers, in detail, Configuration, Maintenance, and Security.
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Topsy - A Teachable Operating System:
http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/~topsy/
Topsy is a small (~20kb machine code) multi-threaded microkernel.
It is written in ANSI C and protects kernel threads from user
programs. It supports memory management, thread/process control
and an IO and driver subsystem. Communication and sychronization
is implemented with messages. Topsy was written for an
undergraduate course focusing on concurrency, device programming
and OS concepts.
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Great Web Design Tips:
http://www.great-web-design-tips.com/
This is a free, three chapter, 48 subsection, online course on
how to create more user-friendly web sites, by incorporating good
web usability and accessibility design elements.
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One Day Web Course on Web Application Design:
http://tinyurl.com/352w
Morning Session:
For 56K:
http://tinyurl.com/2y8q
For 200K:
http://tinyurl.com/2y8r
Afternoon Session:
For 56K:
http://tinyurl.com/2y8s
For 200K:
http://tinyurl.com/2y8u
(Slides are not available, Windows Media required)
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SQL Server WorldWide User's Group:
http://www.sswug.org
This site performs daily searches to find the latest SQL Server
articles and resources for both the DBA and Developer.
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DeviantPC Articles:
http://www.deviantpc.com/articles/index.shtml
Hardware and system related tutorial articles. This article,
System Buses Explained, shows how system performance is related
to different system buses, memory configuration and processor
speed: http://www.deviantpc.com/articles/systembus/index.shtml
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3Com Press Box Technical Papers:
http://www.3com.com/corpinfo/en_US/technology/index.jsp
These are Technology, Networking and Telecommunications white
papers from 3Com.
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iForum Sessions:
http://www.iec.org/online/iforums/sessions.html
This is a unique knowledge enhancing site from the International
Engineering Consortium for those who want reliable and
authoritative information on current communications technology
topics and applications. Also, check out these three course
modules covering IP and Packet Networking Basics of Internet
Protocol(IP): http://www.iec.org/online/ctp/demo/
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UML Tutorial from Enterprise Architect in 2 parts:
http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/UML_Tutorial.htm
UML Tutorial:
http://uml.tutorials.trireme.com/
This UML Tutorial focuses both on the widely used UML notation
and on the principles of modeling. Its focus is on best practice
and suggests a set of requirements for a practical analysis and
design technique.
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Search The Rational Edge and Rose Architect back issues:
http://www.therationaledge.com/admin/archives.jsp
Here are some good articles from their previous issues:
Articles about UML, the Unified Modeling Language:
http://tinyurl.com/2y8v
Articles about Use Cases:
http://tinyurl.com/2y8w
Articles about Rational Rose:
http://tinyurl.com/2y8x
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Articles Written by Allen Holub:
http://www.holub.com/aiharticles.html
These tutorial articles take you step by step through the entire
Object Oriented Design process.
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Software Engineering Library Documentation List:
http://sel.gsfc.nasa.gov/website/documents/online-doc.htm
These documents are available in PDF or HTML format: Recommended
Approach to Software Development, Manager's Handbook for Software
Development, Cost and Schedule Estimation Study Report, C Style
Guide, Software Measurement Guidebook, and Software Process
Improvement Guide.
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DACS Technical Reports:
http://www.dacs.dtic.mil/techs/
Here are some of the free reports from this site:
Software Prototyping and Requirements Engineering:
http://www.dacs.dtic.mil/techs/prototype/toc.shtml
Provides information on software prototyping and requirements
engineering, covering software development, maintenance, and
management.
A Business Case for Software Process Improvement:
http://www.dacs.dtic.mil/techs/roispi2/roispi2-toc.shtml
Demonstrates from a business, profit and loss perspective the
benefits of using software process improvement techniques.
Software Design Methods:
http://www.dacs.dtic.mil/techs/design/Design.ToC.html
Provides an analysis of software design methods, including
coverage on the nature of design, its evolution, its status, and
directions for the future.
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ACM Siggraph Education Committee Instructional Materials:
http://www.siggraph.org/education/materials/C_and_I.htm
The ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics provides you
with free learning content on computer graphics, graphics design,
and scientific visualization. Here is a 600 page course, with
examples, on Introduction to Programming with Java 3D:
http://www.siggraph.org/education/materials/siggraph_courses/S99/40/readme.htm
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OpenGL Developer Documentation:
http://www.opengl.org/developers/documentation/
Many resources, such as overviews, specification, manual pages,
implementations, and white papers on OpenGL are available here.
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Streaming Media Articles:
http://www.streamingmedia.com/editorial/
This site will teach you all about streaming media with their
many original articles and tutorials, and hundreds of hours of
audio and video content.
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Four Free Help and Support Sites:
Keen: Get Advice: Computing and Internet:
http://www.keen.com/categories/categorylist.asp?Category=58
Keen, Your Personal Advisor, is where you get live, immediate
advice and information.
Pointask: Computers and Technology:
http://www.pointask.com/pointask/f_expsub.php3?catid=134217728
Get answers to your questions in many areas in Computers and
Technology.
Helpus.com:
http://www.helpus.com/
Find information on buying, upgrading, repairing hardware and
trouble shooting. You can email them for help.
Tech Support Guy Forums:
http://forums.techguy.org/
A very active forum site with several forum in each of these
categories: Software & Hardware, Operating Systems, Internet &
Networking, and Community.
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Keystone Self-Paced Computer Training:
http://www.keystonelearning.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/ExecMacro/offer_form.d2w/courses
Free Training CDs on Java, SQL Server 2000, Oracle8i, Java 2, and
more (for U.S. residents only).
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FreeTechTraining.com:
http://www.freetechtraining.com/video/videos.taf
Free training videos and how to links for Microsoft
certifications.
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Windows XP Professional How-to Articles for IT Pros:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/itpro/default.asp
This free Microsoft guide provides some highly useful tips on XP
deployment, management and networking.
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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.
Free JDK 1.4 Tutorial book:
http://www.javalobby.org/members/index.jsp
This book teaches experienced developers, as well as novices, the
new JDK 1.4 features such as a new I/O system, a persistent
preferences framework, Java WebStart, and Java regular
expressions. All the examples in the book are substantial and
solve real-world problems without the clutter of unnecessary
details. Free registration is required. (9.9mb, pdf, 406 pages)
See the Java 2 SDK downloads and documentation below, in Sites
Worth Mentioning (Section 8) to go along with this free book.
These 2 books are also offered for free on this site: CodeNotes
for J2EE: EJB, JDBC, JSP and Servlets and Core Servlets and
JavaServer Pages.
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Processing XML with Java:
http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/xmljava/
http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava/
This 1000 page free book is a complete tutorial on how to write
Java programs that read and write XML documents. It shows you how
to handle XML in its full generality and how to design your
programs so that they handle real XML in all its messiness: valid
and invalid, mixed and unmixed, typed and untyped, and both all
and none of these at the same time. It also covers XML-RPC, SOAP,
and RSS in some detail.
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Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide:
http://www.andamooka.org/index.pl?section=lkmpg
A HOWTO-style guide for C programmers who want to write Linux
kernel modules. Written by Ori Pomerantz.
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Advanced Linux Programming:
http://www.advancedlinuxprogramming.com/
Advanced Linux Programming will help you to write more
sophisticated programs with features such as multiprocessing,
multi-threading, interprocess communication, and interaction with
hardware devices. It also shows you how to improve your programs
by making them run faster, more reliably, and more securely. The
full text may be downloaded for free from this site.
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Debian GNU/Linux System Administrator's Manual:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/system-administrator/index.html
The Debian GNU/Linux System Administrator's Manual covers all
system administration aspects of a Debian GNU/Linux system
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Maximum RPM: Taking the Red Hat Package Manager to the Limit:
http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/
This is a book about the Red Hat Package Manager or RPM. The
first section shows how to use RPM on your system, the second
section explains how to build packages with RPM.
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PostgreSQL- Introduction and Concepts:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/aw_pgsql_book/index.html
This free book is about PostgreSQL, a very advanced open source
database. This book leads the reader from their first database
query through the complex queries needed to solve real-world
problems. No knowledge of database theory or practice is
required. However, basic knowledge of operating system
capabilities is expected.
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Mark Watson's Open Content Free Web Books:
http://www.markwatson.com/opencontent/
Currently, this author offers two free web books, here are the
links:
Practical Artificial Intelligence Programming in Java:
http://www.markwatson.com/opencontent/javaai_lic.htm
Loving Lisp, or the Savvy Programmer's Secret Weapon:
http://www.markwatson.com/opencontent/lisp_lic.htm
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Programming Pearls, 2nd Edition:
http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/pearls/
This book is a collection of essays, providing a guide for both
students and experienced programmers about how to design and
create programs, and how to think about programming. It is full
of small case studies, real examples, and interesting exercises
for learning about how to program.
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Oracle 8 SQL Reference:
http://www.daimi.au.dk/~oracle/sql/index.html
This reference contains a complete description of the Structured
Query Language (SQL) used to manage information in an Oracle
database.
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Oracle Diagnostic and Tuning Tools
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/oracle2/chapter/ch10.html
This is a free chapter from the book, Oracle Performance Tuning,
2nd Edition.
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Adaptive Object-Oriented Software: a PWS book: Patterns for
Adaptive Programming (AP):
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/research/demeter/biblio/dem-book.html
The first book on adaptive programming.
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IT Management-101: Fundamentals to Achieve More:
http://www.mde.net/it101/
This 104 page pdf book is an excellent primer in IT management
(free registration required, 2MB zip file). You can also obtain
the author's 7 free tools of his IT Manager ToolKit here:
http://www.mde.net/cio/page18.html. This page:
http://www.mde.net/cio/page15.html contains many of the articles
he has written.
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Project and Programme Management:
http://www.epmbook.com/
This free ebook about Project Management aims to examine issues,
needs and approaches in a variety of situations and environments.
It should give you the ability to understand what is needed and
why, plus how you can best address those needs.
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The Definitive Guide to Identity Management:
http://www.rainbow.com/idebook
This eBook will take an in depth look at Identity Management and
covers: Account Life Cycle Management, Access and Authorization
Controls, Auditing and Reporting, Federated Identity, Web
Services Integration, Policy-Based Management, Personal
Preferences, Mobile Services. It will be posted chapter by
chapter as it's written.
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The Computer Revolution In Philosophy Philosophy, Science and
Models of Mind:
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/cogaff/crp/
This book, by Aaron Sloman and published in 1978 by Harvester
Press and Humanities Press, has been out of print for many years,
and is now online.
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CodeNotes for .NET Component Developers:
http://www.codenotes.com/do/downloads/downloadsNETbook
Codenotes site is offering this free ebook for .Net developers.
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Using Web Forms:
http://vig.prenhall.com/samplechapter/0672322358.pdf
This is chapter 3 from Sams Teach Yourself C# Web Programming in
21 Days.
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Free Book Chapters from MSDN.com:
Professional DCOM Application Development, 3 free chapters:
http://tinyurl.com/2y90
Professional ASP Techniques for Webmasters, 4 free chapters:
http://tinyurl.com/2y92
Professional Active Server Pages 2.0, 5 free chapters:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnproasp2/html/asp20.asp
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Traffic Management for High-Speed Networks:
http://www.nap.edu/books/0309057981/html/index.html
This book is from the Fourth Lecture International Science
Lecture Series.
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Object-Oriented Software Composition:
http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~oscar/OOSC/download.html
This book takes the view that object-oriented technology is
essentially about composing flexible software applications from
software components. The authors intend to show how certain ideas
and principles are closely related to software composition,
whether one considers programming language design, formal
specification, tools and environments, or application
development.
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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
Computer Courses from James Cook University -
Click on Lecture Notes or Lecture Schedule links, also look at
previous years courses:
CP1200 - Introduction to Computer Science 1:
http://www.it.jcu.edu.au/Subjects/Informal/CP1200B.HTML
http://www.it.jcu.edu.au/Subjects/Informal/CP1200.HTML
CP1300 - Introduction to Computer Science II:
http://www.it.jcu.edu.au/Subjects/Informal/CP1300.HTML
CP1500 - Introduction to Information and Database Systems:
http://www.it.jcu.edu.au/Subjects/Informal/CP1500.HTML
CP2001 - Data Structures & Algorithms:
http://www.it.jcu.edu.au/Subjects/Informal/CP2001.HTML
CP2002 - Operating Systems:
http://www.it.jcu.edu.au/Subjects/Informal/CP2002.HTML
CP2004 - Object Oriented Programming:
http://www.it.jcu.edu.au/Subjects/Informal/CP2004.HTML
CP2005 - Computer Architecture:
http://www.cs.jcu.edu.au/Subjects/Informal/CP2005.HTML
CP2010 - Advanced Multimedia:
http://www.it.jcu.edu.au/Subjects/Informal/CP2010.HTML
CP2060 - Computer Graphics:
http://www.it.jcu.edu.au/Subjects/Informal/CP2060.HTML
CP3003 - Internet Technology:
http://www.cs.jcu.edu.au/Subjects/Informal/CP3003.HTML
CP3020 - Advanced Database Management:
http://www.cs.jcu.edu.au/Subjects/Informal/CP3020.HTML
CP3110 - Fundamentals of Software Engineering:
http://www.cs.jcu.edu.au/Subjects/Informal/CP3110.HTML
CP5250 - Network Administration I (Windows):
http://www.cs.jcu.edu.au/Subjects/Informal/CP5250.HTML
CP5290 - Unix/Linux Systems:
http://www.it.jcu.edu.au/Subjects/Informal/CP5290.HTML
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Fundamentals of Computer Science in C:
http://cs.nyu.edu/~campbell/V220380.html
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/courses/spring02/V22.0380-002/lecture_notes.html
21 sets of very good lecture slides on beginning programming in
C.
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C+ and O-O Lecture materials:
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/c++programdesign/slides/
A collection of lecture slides and handouts for a first course in
C++ programming and object-oriented design.
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Tony Sobey's Teaching, 2000:
http://louisa.levels.unisa.edu.au/teaching.html
Programming in Java::
http://louisa.levels.unisa.edu.au/pij/home.html
This is a first programming course, here are the lecture
overheads: http://louisa.levels.unisa.edu.au/pij/Lectures.html
Software Engineering::
http://louisa.levels.unisa.edu.au/se1_99/home.html
A subject in the second year of the degree and diploma courses,
lecture content is here:
http://louisa.levels.unisa.edu.au/se1_99/content.html.
Another section:
http://louisa.levels.unisa.edu.au/se1/sehome.html, lectures:
http://louisa.levels.unisa.edu.au/se1/schedule.html
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Web Technologies:
http://www.npac.syr.edu/projects/tutorials/
Learning resources, lectures and examples to teach you
JavaScript, CGI, Java, JavaBeans, VRML, XML, Web/Database
Interfaces, DHTML and HTML.
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15412- Operating Systems:
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~412/index.html
The course introduces the basic concepts of multiprogramming,
timesharing and asynchronous processes. Emphasis of the course is
on the design aspects of operating systems. Click on the Lecture
link.
Here is a graduate course on Operating Systems providing audio
with all the slides (click on Slides and RealAudio links:
http://student-www.uncc.edu/~jlrobins/CSCI6144/index.html
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CS4417: Systems Analysis and Design:
http://www.csis.ul.ie/Modules/CS4417/
Focuses on Object Oriented Systems Design and Analysis (OOAD)
methodology, using the Unified Modeling Language (UML). Click on
the Lectures link.
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COMP360: Introduction to Computer Graphics:
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~comp360/
Along with lecture notes, this course has links to free OpenGL
tutorials, specs, and books.
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Software Engineering Design 2000:
http://www.cs.uwa.edu.au/undergraduate/units/670.200/
Click on the Download page for excellent overviews and lecture
notes on software engineering. The Resources page provides great
templates for your Requirements Analysis Document, Use Cases,
System and Object Design Documents, and Test Plan and Test Cases.
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CSC444F: Software Engineering I:
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~sme/CSC444F/
These excellent course notes teach you: Software development
process, Software requirements and specifications, Software
design techniques, Techniques for developing large software
systems, CASE tools and software development environments,
Software testing, documentation and maintenance.
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CPSC-612: Applied Networks and Distributed Processing:
http://courses.cs.tamu.edu/cpsc612/miket/
Click on Transparencies link for excellent Lecture Slides in ppt
and sxi formats.
CPSC-662: Distributed Computing Systems:
http://faculty.cs.tamu.edu/bettati/Courses/662/Spring-2002/
Click on Resources and Slides links. Also, here are the
instructors guide <http://www.cdk3.net/ig/> and additional
material <http://www.cdk3.net/additional/> for the text book for
this course.
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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:
CompTIA Security Exam Study Guide:
http://www.alphageekproductions.com
This is a Security+ study guide you can download for free, click
on the Download Free Draft PDF link. The authors have received
feedback indicating that it was instrumental to folks in passing
the beta exam. It is more thorough than cramsession's shorter
guide.
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Digital Director:
http://www.marcpeters.co.uk
A series of digital video editing guides for the amateur
videographer. From video capture to final production. Includes
all the tools needed for successful video editing.
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Developing Webs:
http://www.developingwebs.net/
Freely access tutorials and help with HTML, CSS, Flash,
Animation, Photoshop, FrontPage, Dreamweaver, and Publishing.
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44 page Dreamweaver 4 Tutorial;
http://learnitforfree.co.uk/DW4tutorial.pdf
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Microsoft Solutions Framework Resource Kits:
Principles of Component Design Resource Kit:
http://www.aurelian.ro/MSF/RESOURCE_KIT-PCD/
Principles of Application Development Resource Kit:
http://www.aurelian.ro/MSF/RESOURCE_KIT-PAD/
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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
Top Downloaded Files at programmersheaven.com:
http://www.programmersheaven.com/other/topfiles.htm
Top Articles at programmersheaven.com:
http://www.programmersheaven.com/other/Toparticles.htm
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Academic Info:
Computer Science: Digital Library:
http://www.academicinfo.net/compscilibrary.html
Computer Science: Programming Languages:
http://www.academicinfo.net/compscilang.html
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Software Engineering Resources:
http://www.rspa.com/spi/index.html
Over 800 software engineering resources to help you gather
information on a variety of software engineering topics.
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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
How To's and Guides
http://www.ku.edu/cgiwrap/acs/subject.pl
Variety of documentation: that is, how-to's, guides,
instructions, discussions, class handouts covering Outlook,
Acrobat, Database, Graphics, Presentation, Spreadsheet,
Statistical, Text editing, Word Processing, Web Site, and
Authoring/Publishing/Managing.
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List of computing documents by category:
http://www.bris.ac.uk/is/selfhelp/documentation/docs-by-category.htm
Lot of free training tutorials in many categories, including MS
Office, Security, Windows and Unix.
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Workshop Handouts:
http://www.stfrancis.edu/cid/handouts.htm
This site has training materials on Word PowerPoint, Dreamweaver
and Flash and also an HTML tutorial here:
http://www.stfrancis.edu/cid/tutorial/htm/basic00.htm
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Tutorials and Online Reference Materials:
http://tinyurl.com/2y93
Many online links to Microsoft Office tutorials.
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Time Saving Microsoft Excel Solutions ebook:
http://www.add-ins.com/timesavingsolutions.htm
This is a free ebook in Windows help file format that contains
hundreds of solutions to Microsoft Excel problems. Also, here is
a tutorial showing you all the basic Excel functions:
http://www.edtechnorth.fau.edu/4810web/excel.htm
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Word Questions and Answers:
http://www.addbalance.com/word/download/WordQuestionsandAnswers.zip
160+ page Word document (in zip format, 170kb). Although written
about earlier versions of Word, this guide is very useful and may
have answers you'll have difficulty finding elsewhere.
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8) I.T. Sites Worth Mentioning:
Java 2 SDK, tools, runtimes, and APIs for Standard Edition:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/download.html
Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition Documentation:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/index.html
All Java technology downloads:
http://java.sun.com/downloads/index.html
All Java technology documentation:
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/infodocs/
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ltpb.8m.com:
http://ltpb.8m.com/
This programming site has source code, program library,
Tutorials, Tips, Image Library, Game development library, and
more. This site is updated fairly often with new content, the
majority of which is tutorials and images.
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AIDA32:
http://www.aida32.hu/aida-features.php?bit=32
This is a free hardware, software and network auditing tool. It
documents your hardware and software configuration, verifies
networks, and provides memory benchmarks. The documentation is a
separate download (free registration required).
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PrcView:
http://www.teamcti.com/pview/prcview.htm
This totally free process viewer displays detailed information
about all running Windows processes including memory used,
threads and DLL usage. Full path and version information is also
shown for each process and DLL. You can also kill or change
priority of any process.
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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.
December 2002 FAQ: Where can I find free computer books?
Answer:
You can go to intelligentedu.com's 4-page Free Computer and IT Books
section here: http://www.intelligentedu.com/free_computer_books.html.
There you will find all of the best free computer and IT related
books and chapters on the web today. We constantly search for new
ones and include them here in every monthly newsletter. If you
cannot find what you are looking for, or need more than what is
listed, please email me at scott_turton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and I will
try help you out.
Scott Turton
Computer Education, Training & Tutorial Resources
http://www.intelligentedu.com
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Please help support Intelligentedu.com's Computer and IT Education and
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Computer Colleges:
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Free to Sell - The Ultimate eBook!
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Accelerated Online Degree Programs: Business and Accounting,
Computer Information, Criminal Justice, Liberal Arts.
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University Alliance Schools:
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video lectures
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