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BASICS TUTORIAL ON PCS AND USE OF THE INTERNET
REFERENCES
This page provides links to other tutorial pages on the Internet of information I've looked at, that allow you to study the subject to deeper levels (ALL IN NEW WINDOWS). These appear to be very informative and presented with a standard of quality above a reasonable level, but I'm not responsible for their content or upkeep in any way. The reference numbers are as quoted throughout the text of this website. This tutorial stays open - try not to lose yourself!
Ref 1 Introduction to PC Hardware by Howard Gilbert.
Ref 2 A
CPU History by David Risley (on PC Mechanic).
Ref 3 CPU
and Memory Speed by Howard Gilbert.
Ref 4 Character
Encoding by Howard Gilbert.
Ref 5 Computers,
Video Files and HDTV by Howard Gilbert.
Ref 6 Software
Tips and tricks (discussion forum).
Ref 7 Windows
Page by Bob Cerelli
Ref 8 An
HTML Tutorial by Dave Raggett.
Ref 9 A
JavaScript Tutorial at WebMonkey.
Ref 10 A
JavaScript Tutorial at WebTeacher.
Ref 11 A
PHP Tutorial at The PHP Group.
Ref 12 A
PHP Tutorial at WebMonkey.
Ref 13 CGI
(Perl) Scripts for Fun and Profit at WebMonkey.
Ref 14 Intro
to Perl for CGI at WebMonkey.
Ref 15
How Domain Name Servers Work by Marshall Brain.
Ref 16
How Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) Work by Marshall Brain.
Ref 17
How Motherboards Work by Tracy V. Wilson.
Ref 18
How Microprocessors Work by Marshall Brain.
Ref 19
How Random Access Memory (RAM) Works by Jeff Tyson and Dave Coustan.
Ref 20
How Floppy Disk Drives Work by Gary Brown.
Ref 21
How Compact Disk (CD) Drives Work by Marshall Brain.
Ref 22
How a BIOS Works by Jeff Tyson.
Ref 23
How Modems Work by Marshall Brain.
Ref 24
How Cable Modems Work by Curt Franklin.
Ref 25
How Keyboards Work by Tracy V. Wilson and Jeff Tyson.
Ref 26
How a Mouse Works by Marshall Brain and Carmen Carmack.
Ref 27
How a Display Monitor Works by Carmen Carmack and Jeff Tyson.
Ref 28
How an Inkjet Printer Works by Jeff Tyson.
Ref 29
How a Laser Printer Works by Tom Harris.
Ref 30
How a Scanner Works by Jeff Tyson.
Ref 31
How a CD Burner Works by Tom Harris.
Ref 32
Zip Drives.
Ref 33
How a Webcam Works by Julia Leyton.
Ref 34
How Operating Systems Work by Dave Coustan and Curt Franklin.
Ref 35
How a Firewall Works by Jeff Tyson.
Ref 36
How Computer Viruss Work by Marshall Brain.
Ref 37
How Identity Theft Works by Lee Ann Obringer.
Ref 38
How Search Engines Work by Curt Franklin.
Ref 39
How the Internet Infrastructure Works by Jeff Tyson.
Ref 40
How Cookies Work by Marshall Brain.
Ref 41
How Parallel Ports Work by Jeff Tyson.
Ref 42
How Serial Ports Work by Jeff Tyson.
Ref 43
How USB Ports Work by Marshall Brain.
Ref 44
USB Hubs.
Ref 45
Build your own computer.
Ref 46
Active Server Pages Tutorial for Beginners.
In relation to ongoing learning (when you think you've outgrown my tutorial), I suggest that you would benefit from having the following sample selection of general sources in your browser's 'Favourites' (or add to 'Bookmarks'):
- This tutorial (of course!).
- Ref 6 (Software Tips and Tricks) above.
- W3C (the Worldwide Web Consortium).
- WebMonkey.
- How Stuff Works.
- Beginners.
- To be continued.
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