Learning Center (coming soon)

Not everyone is a computer scientist or an engineer, but that doesn't mean that everyone shouldn't be familiar with computers and technology. The world is changing quickly, and those who can keep up have a clear advantage. The Learning Center provides you with links to information about the most common uses for technology. Edit your own pictures, set up your own printer, and make your own website! You may even find that computing is for you in the process.

1. The Basics: E-mail, Microsoft Office, downloading music, the internet, and printers

2. Photography: Choosing digital cameras, scanning photos, editing photos, posting pictures, and making slideshows

3. Webpage design: HTML, Javascript, Perl, Photoshop, FTP

4. Computer Languages: HTML, C/C++/C#, Java, Perl, Javascript, XML, VB, PhP, SQL

5. Operating Systems: Unix, Linux, Windows

6. Computer Terms

1. Basics:

E-mail

A site that gives a good overview of how E-mail works and what you can use it to do.

Microsoft Office

Learn new tricks or the basics of Microsoft Office from the Microsoft training site.

Music

A site that teaches you how to download music legally

Internet

A site that explains just how the internet works

Printer set-up

How to set up your printer

Internet set-up

2. Photography:

Choosing digital cameras

Scanning photos

Editing photos

Posting pictures

Making slideshows and CD's

3. Webpage Design:

There are good crash courses in HTML at http://tabs.stanford.edu/webworks, a student-run workshop series designed to teach web design. Topics include: 

HTML

Javascript

Perl

Photoshop

FTP

4. Computer Languages:

HTML,

C/C++/C#

Java

Perl

Javascript

XML

VB

Php

SQL

5. Operating Systems:

Unix

Linux

Windows

6. Computing Terms