May 2002 Computer IT Education & Training Newsletter

  • From: "Scott Turton-Intelligentedu.com" <intel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: intelinfo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: 30 Apr 2002 22:26:11 -0500

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           Newsletter for Computer IT Education,
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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

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:

Hello, everyone and welcome to our new subscribers! This is the 
21st issue of our free monthly email newsletter for Computer IT 
Education, Training, & Tutorial Resources, giving you 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 six 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 58 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.

*** Current News ***

I have restructured the important sections of the site, creating 
several more pages in each of these sections:
Free IT Training & Courses:
http://www.intelligentedu.com/cat1.html
Free IT Tutorials, Guides & Help:
http://www.intelligentedu.com/cat2.html
Free Computer IT Books:
http://www.intelligentedu.com/free_computer_books.html

I have put together a new e-book, "Understanding Computer 
Security", extracting the best information from U.S. government 
agency computer security papers and guides and presenting it in a 
coherent and understandable manner. My hope is that this e-book 
will make computer security easier to learn. As an Intelligentedu.com 
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Please take a minute to fill out our new website feedback form to 
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upcoming newsletter.

I'd like to personally wish you the best of luck with your 
computer studies and learning.

Warm Regards,
Scott Turton
Newsletter Editor and Webmaster
intel@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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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.


Developerfusion.com:
http://www.developerfusion.com/

Thousands of tutorials, source code, components and reviews for 
programmers covering MS technologies and also PHP, JavaScript, 
C/C++, SQL, Perl and XML.

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Newest Tutorials from Planet Source Code:
http://www.planet-source-code.com/default.asp?lngWId=-1

This site contains lots of tutorials and free code in C/C++, 
Perl, Java, JavaScript, ASP, PHP, SQL, .Net and VB for the 
following: Algorithms, Classes/Frameworks/OOP, Coding Standards, 
Controls/Forms/Dialogs/Menus, Data Structures, Databases, Games, 
Graphics/ Sound, Internet/Browsers/HTML, Security, Sorting, 
Strings, System Services/Functions, Validations.

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Software Tutorials:
http://www.webmasterbase.com/tutorials/index.php

Contains a vast variety of web design tutorials for applications 
such as Dreamweaver, Flash, FrontPage 2000, GoLive, Illustrator, 
Photoshop, Fireworks, and others.

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The Programmer's Starting Place:
http://www.codelearn.com/

Learn for free: Program design, C/C++ and Python programming, 
Object-oriented programming, Data Base Management Systems, and 
sample programs.

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Oracle.com:
http://www.oracle.com/start/ou_seminars/intro.html

Oracle University iSeminars and Live Chat (with Free mini 
Lessons) gives the latest in Oracle certification and technology 
providing you unique training (free registration required).

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Free Tutorials:
http://www.westlake.com/resources/download_tutorials.html

WestLake provides free access to downloadable tutorials covering 
ASP, JavaScript and XML. 

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Gateway.com: Support:
http://service.gateway.com/gateway/

Step-by-step computer tutorials and tutorial videos. Here are 
their videos:
http://gateway.com/support/techdocs/tutorials/index.shtml

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An Introduction to the Structure of Computers and Programs:
http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~cs203/S2002/Supplement.pdf

28 page guide on PC Architecture, Representing Data, Programming 
Levels, Syntax and Semantics.

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InfoSource Technical Training:
http://technicaleval.infosourcetraining.com/default.asp

Click on the New User button to gain access to these free 
courses:
- Managing Active Directory Objects
- Implementing IP Routing
- Sharing Resources over the Internet
- Router Configuration Basics 

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The Art of Unix Programming:
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/taoup/

This is Eric Raymond's work on the engineering wisdom and 
philosophy of the Unix community as it's applied today. It 
doesn't focus so much on "what" as on "why", showing the 
connection between Unix philosophy and practice through case 
studies in widely available open-source software.

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U2Test.com:
http://www.u2test.com/

Free IT tests with certificates, like Brainbench.com, but free.

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Suggestafix.com:
http://www.suggestafix.com

This is an excellent free tech support site, get help on 
Hardware, Operating Systems and Web mastering, without the 
typical techno-babble. 'Where People with problems come for 
help...And answers come from people that know.'

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Company Tech Support:
http://www.profusion.com/CatNav.asp?ID=40&AGTID=14&queryterm=

Search for support from major tech companies like Apple, IBM, 
Novell, Sun, Gateway, Intel, Oracle.

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Linuxjournal.com Tech Support:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=NS-lj-issues&file=techsup

Get answers to your generic or vendor-specific Linux questions by 
a team of Linux gurus, which includes experts on the support 
staffs of Linux vendors.

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New Boson Certification Practice Demo Tests, each download has 
one to many tests, and each test has 12 free questions:

- Borland:
- http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/57589.shtml

- Computer Associates Certification:
- http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/53374.shtml

- Cisco CCNA certification:
- http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/53375.shtml

- Cisco specialization certification:
- http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/53387.shtml

- Cisco certification:
- http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/53388.shtml

- CCIE Lab:
- http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/54677.shtml

- CISSP certification:
- http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/55316.shtml

- CIW certification:
- http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/53376.shtml

- Oracle certification:
- http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/53378.shtml

- Compaq certification:
- http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/53381.shtml

- IBM certification:
- http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/53382.shtml

- Lotus certification:
- http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/53383.shtml

- Microsoft certification:
- http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/53384.shtml

- Nokia certification:
- http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/57590.shtml

- Novell certification:
- http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/53385.shtml

- Unix / Linux certification:
- http://www.simtel.iif.hu/pub/pd/53391.html

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Technique: A Website for People Who Build Websites:
http://www.tech-nique.org/web.php

Featured daily are articles covering the internet industry, 
website design, programming, and site administration.

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Refcards.com:
http://www.refcards.com

The source for quick reference cards for ANSI C, Apache, mod_Perl 
and more.

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Testfree.com:
http://testfree3.testfree.com/exams.asp

Free certification practice tests covering Microsoft, Cisco, 
CompTIA, Novell and Certified Internet Webmaster. Register for 
free first at http://testfree3.testfree.com/test/newfree.asp.

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Tech Guides from Systweak.com:
http://www.systweak.com/guides/guides.htm
http://www.systweak.com/download.htm

The following hardware related guides are available for free at 
this site:
- FAT32 and Hard disk Guide
- Mystery Behind Windows Registry - A Guide
- The Hardware Guide
- Mystery Behind Overclocking - A Guide
- Tweaking Guide to PC

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AudioWhiz:
http://www.audiowhiz.com/samples.htm

Free five minute samples of their audio courses can be downloaded 
for Windows 2000 Server, Cisco CCNA, Network+ and Visual Basic.

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Windows XP Expert Tips:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/tips/default.asp

Prize-winning tips submitted to the Expert Zone by experienced 
Windows XP users.

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Learnvisualstudio.net:
http://www.learnvisualstudio.net/DesktopDefault.aspx

Over an hour of Free .Net videos are available at this site. You 
can download several each week for free.

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Free .Net Training:
http://www.imguniversity.com/dotnet/

Microsoft has partnered with IMGUniversity.com to bring you free 
.Net sample online training modules. Choose any from these 
selected courses:
- Introduction to ASP.Net 
- Programming Microsoft .Net Framework with Microsoft Visual C# 
- Securing and Deploying Microsoft.Net Assemblies 
- Introduction to Microsoft Visual C# Programming for the 
Microsoft .Net Platform 


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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.


http://sunsite.iisc.ernet.in/virlib/

Free Online IT Computer Books at Sunsite India covering Java, 
JavaScript, Perl, Unix, Linux, Windows, ActiveX, HTML, CGI, 
Apache, TCP/IP, CORBA, Intranets  and Network Security.

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nevada.tpi.pl:
http://nevada.tpi.pl/books/

Several free online books in these areas: Apache, CGI, Shockwave, 
Web Applets, C, Java, JavaScript, Unix, Oracle, Perl and Linux.

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njnet.com:
http://www.njnet.edu.cn/info/ebook/

More free online books covering ASP, Java, JavaScript, 
Networking, Linux, Windows NT, Photoshop, Visual Basic and 
OpenGL.

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Introduction to Networking and Data Communications:
http://www.thelinuxreview.com/howto/intro_to_networking/

Many technical networking topics are discussed in this freely 
available book.

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330 Java Tips:
http://download.com.com/3000-2415-6903077.html

This free e-book of Java tips was collected from real daily Java 
experience. This book covers most areas of Java programming and 
was written for programmers with up to three years of experience. 
Beginners will find answers that are not in usual Java FAQs.

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Hardcore Visual Basic:
http://www.mvps.org/vb/hardcore/

Microsoft Visual Basic makes it easy to write 95 percent of your 
application, but when you reach that last 5 percent, it seems to 
be fighting you every step of the way. This book helps you become 
a better VB programmer.

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FutureDesigners:
http://www.futuredesigners.com/

Books, guides and tutorials covering HTML, DHTML, XML, Shockwave, 
Perl, Java, CGI and ActiveX.

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Advanced Bash - Scripting Guide :
http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html
http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/abs/abs-guide.html.tar.gz (290k)

This document is both a tutorial and a reference on shell 
scripting with Bash. It assumes no previous knowledge of 
scripting or programming, but progresses rapidly toward an 
intermediate/advanced level of instruction.

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New Free E-Book on Basic Network Setup (562k):
http://www.cdromcsc.com/rl/network.exe

Free E-Book on PC Basics for the Beginner (572k):
http://www.cdromcsc.com/rl/Pcbasics.exe

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Bucaro TecHelp Downloads:
http://bucarotechelp.com/download/

Download Free e-Books, Maintain Your Computer and Use it More 
Effectively
to Design a Web Site and Make Money on the Web (free registration 
required).

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NetLingo:
http://www.netlingo.com/inframes.cfm

An online dictionary about the Internet. It contains thousands of 
words and definitions that describe the technology and community 
of the World Wide Web.

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ftp://ftp.aliboom.com/pub/ebooks/

The following books and guides are available on this ftp site. 
The site owner asks that you only download what you need.
- Advanced Bash Scripting Guide
- Apache Server Unleashed
- Emacspeak Users Guide
- GNU Scientific Library - Reference Manual
- Grokking The GIMP - 27Mb HTML tarball
- KDE 2.0 Development
- Linux Administrators Security Guide
- Linux Consultants Guide
- Linux Device Drivers
- Linux From Scratch
- Linux Kernel 2.4 Internals
- Linux Network Administrators Guide
- Linux Newbie Guide
- Linux Hardware Handbook
- Maximum Linux Security - A Hacker's Guide to Protecting Your 
Linux Server and Workstation
- Practical Linux
- Sams Teach Yourself Linux in 24 Hours
- Sams Teach Yourself Linux-Mandrake in 24 Hours
- System Administrator's Guide
- The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2
- Using Linux As A Router
- Using Samba Compressed as a zip.

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Cisco makes available copies of some of their books and chapters 
of books online for free. If you thinking about getting Cisco 
certified or are currently in the process of doing so, you'll 
want to check these out. Here's a sampling of what's currently 
available:

Internetworking Technology Handbook:
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ito_doc/index.htm

Cisco Integrated Networking Solutions:
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/solution/index.htm

Internetworking Case Studies:
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ics/index.htm

Internetwork Design Guide:
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/idg4/index.htm

Internetwork Troubleshooting Guide:
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/itg_v1/index.htm


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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


Courses at Rensselaer Computer Science Department:

Lecture Notes for Object Oriented Programming:
http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~schupp/entries/COURSES/OOP/index.html#lectures

Programming XML in Java:
http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~puninj/XMLJ/toc.html

Computer Science II:
http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~kettnv/cs2/

Web Technologies (CSS, XML, Servlets, JSP, Security):
http://www.rh.edu/~heidic/webtech/index.html#syllabus

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Information Systems in Society:
http://www.csm.uwe.ac.uk/~rstephen/courses/UQI113s3/

Excellent class notes and links, based on a diverse body of 
research which fall under the rubric of 'social informatics'. 
These include communications, computer science, information 
systems and science and some social sciences.

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Foundations of Information Technology, UQI108s1:
http://www.csm.uwe.ac.uk/~jgilliga/UQI108S1/

Very well done Powerpoint slides covering Data Representation and 
Computer Systems Hardware, and Data Communications and Software.

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CS513 Computer Security - Lecture Annex:
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/html/cs513-sp99/03.lectsmry.html

Excellent course notes with graphics covering computer security.

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University of British Columbia Computer Science Dept.:

Advanced Software Engineering:
http://www.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca/~cs410/course-web.htm

Client/Server Architecture Lecture:
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/murphy/cpsc310-2001/client-server.htm

Design Patterns Lectures:
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/murphy/cs310-1998/index.htm
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/murphy/cs310/index.html

Slides from a lecture on Source Code Comprehension Tools:
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/murphy/cs319/index.html


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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:


Technipal.com:
http://www.technipal.com/

A Computer Programming Resource - A beginner's source for 
computer programming tutorials in Perl, Java, C, C++ Languages.

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A Guide On Computer Hardware:
http://education.vsnl.com/samsguide/

A decent guide on computer hardware, with tips on assembling, 
maintenance, fault finding, and diagnostics.

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Flash Circle Tutorials:
http://www.flashcircle.com/tutorials.php?topic=flash

Flash circle is a online resource for Macromedia Flash 
development. Browse their tutorial archives and download  free 
FLAs, SWFs and sound loops.

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Srikanth Technologies:
http://www.srikanthtechnologies.com/default.asp

A good Oracle8i and also Java tutorial site. Articles are here: 
http://www.srikanthtechnologies.com/allarticles.html. Here is 
their free Oracle8i book:
http://www.srikanthtechnologies.com/books/orabook/oraclebook.html. 
Here is their free on-line examination allowing you to assess 
your skills in C/C++, Java, Oracle8i and Visual Basic 6.0: 
http://www.srikanthtechnologies.com/oe/onlineexam.html.

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World of Windows Networking:
http://www.wown.com/

Tutorials on windows and networking.

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Dreamweaver Help Pages:
http://www.arch.su.edu.au/~joe/guides/dreamweaver/Help/ContextHelp.htm

Dreamweaver HTML Help Pages provide comprehensive information 
about all Dreamweaver features. 

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3 Free CIW Courses:
http://showcase.blackboard.com/

CIW E-Commerce Designer, CIW Site Designer and CIW Foundations 
courses are available for free, log on with user: ciwdemo and 
password: ciwdemo.


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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


MVPS.org:
http://www.mvps.org/

Many subwebs available here covering Microsoft technologies.

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The DotNetJunkies Tutorial Index:
http://dotnetjunkies.com/tutorialsindex.aspx

Lists DotNetJunkies tutorials by topic to help you find the 
tutorial that suits your needs.


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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


Microsoft Office Demo Course Chapters:

- Access 97:
Intro:
http://www.learn2university.com/reseller/catalog/prodout_2000.asp?ugid=bHVvbmxpbmVzbg&pid=515&csid=3
Intermediate:
http://www.learn2university.com/reseller/catalog/prodout_2000.asp?ugid=bHVvbmxpbmVzbg&pid=516&csid=3
Advanced:
http://www.learn2university.com/reseller/catalog/prodout_2000.asp?ugid=bHVvbmxpbmVzbg&pid=517&csid=3

- Excel 97:
Intro:
http://www.learn2university.com/reseller/catalog/prodout_2000.asp?ugid=bHVvbmxpbmVzbg&pid=518&csid=3
Intermediate:
http://www.learn2university.com/reseller/catalog/prodout_2000.asp?ugid=bHVvbmxpbmVzbg&pid=783&csid=3
Advanced:
http://www.learn2university.com/reseller/catalog/prodout_2000.asp?ugid=bHVvbmxpbmVzbg&pid=519&csid=3

- Powerpoint 2000:
Intro:
http://www.learn2university.com/reseller/catalog/prodout_2000.asp?ugid=bHVvbmxpbmVzbg&pid=395&csid=158
Advanced:
http://www.learn2university.com/reseller/catalog/prodout_2000.asp?ugid=bHVvbmxpbmVzbg&pid=565&csid=158
Presentations:
http://www.learn2university.com/reseller/catalog/prodout_2000.asp?ugid=bHVvbmxpbmVzbg&pid=761&csid=158

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Free Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 quick reference card:
http://www.customguide.com/demos/powerpoint2000qr.exe

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NPower Training's Top Ten Tips:
http://www.npowerseattle.org/training/resources/tips/index1.htm

These tipsheets are in PDF format for you to download and share 
with your staff or post over your desk.

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Excel 2000 Tutorial:
http://www.nlearnseries.com/site/samplehtml/excel2000/excel2000.htm

11 topic Excel tutorial with several pages per topic.

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Free Excel Lessons:
http://www.gurukulonline.com/office2000/Excel2000/39073/39073_menu.htm

Getting Started with Excel 2000 and Building and Editing 
Worksheets.

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Free QuickBooks Tutorials:
http://www.quicken.com.au/training/education.htm#QuickBooks

Includes Introduction, Data Base for new and existing businesses, 
Plan for introduction of QuickBooks PRO into the classroom, 
QuickBooks and the GST, and Budgeting in QuickBooks.


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8) I.T. Sites Worth Mentioning:


Advanced Registry Tracer (ART):
http://www.elcomsoft.com/art.html

This is a utility designed for analyzing changes made to Windows 
Registry - by making the "snapshots" of it and keeping them in 
the browsable database. It takes 2 snapshots of selected parts of 
the registry and then lets you compare the "before" and "after" 
versions. ART also compares any key of the Registry. 


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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.

May 2002 FAQ: Where can I learn more about viruses and how to 
defend my computer against them?

Answer: Here are some good sites where you can learn more about 
what virus do, how they do it, and how to be prepared and avoid 
becoming a victim.

http://www.labmice.net/AntiVirus/start.htm
Anti-Virus FAQ's and Introductory Articles - 25 tutorial articles 
about viruses.

http://csrc.nist.gov/virus/
Tons of virus information and resources from the Computer 
Security Resources Center.

http://www.cknow.com/vtutor/index.htm
Computer Knowledge Virus Tutorial - Discusses what they are, give 
you some history, discuss protection from viruses, and mentions 
some of the characteristics of a virus hoax.

http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/
The F-Secure computer virus information center - Considered the 
industry standard source for up-to-date information on new 
viruses and hoax alerts. 
http://www.antivirus.com/vinfo/
Trend Micro Virus Information page - they also have free anti-
virus tools here: http://www.antivirus.com/free_tools/

http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/tutorial/
Tutorial Index from Symantec -  Many shockwave formatted 
tutorials covering Norton Antivirus and other Norton products.

http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/3120-20-0.html?qt=antivirus&tg=dl-2001
Here are the top antivirus tools to download and install from 
ZDNet Downloads.

I hope this information helps you.

Scott Turton
Computer Education, Training & Tutorial Resources
http://www.intelligentedu.com


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