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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 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 10 A JavaScript Tutorial at WebTeacher.
Ref 11 A PHP Tutorial at The PHP Group.
Ref 12 Beginner's Introduction to PERL.
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).
- How Stuff Works.
- Beginners.
- Study Internet & Web Design Courses.
- To be continued.
Details updated: June 15 2010
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