More newbie computing resources

//engtech at http://internetducttape.com/ [recommended resource] writing today at Lorelle’s place

Learning About the Web in Plain English
Having a background in computer engineering has been a great boon to me when it comes to blogging. … I have had an edge from being genuinely interested in the technology behind how things work and finding ways to get them to work for me. But it can be very hard to try to explain how technology works to other people. That’s why I’m such a big fan of the “in plain english” series of instructional videos on […]
http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/08/12/learning-about-the-web-in-plain-english/

offers some additional tutorials.

These would work best if not on dial-up. So, I tried to track down the great tutorials that can be downloaded and saved. These originally came from New Zealand (Life-long Learning tutorials, http://www.cit.ac.nz/smac/csware.htm), developed by R. Brian Brown and were mirrored in various places. I bookmarked these for you at the edublogs.org collection

http://del.icio.us/edublogs

(see sidebar).

Here is a list of mirrors which may be up to date.

http://lifelong.freeservers.com/csmirror.htm

“Self Study Guides Currently Available”
http://learnat.sait.ab.ca/cit/cscourse.htm

http://physinfo.ulb.ac.be/cit_courseware/

http://physinfo.ulb.ac.be/cit_courseware/ma200/tutors.htm

Here are mirrors available through the Wayback Machine but not all are complete.

for example,
Learning HTML Basics

“Welcome to the Central Institute of Technology’s free online self-study IT courses
mirrored at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.”
http://web.archive.org/web/20010301212755/goforit.unk.edu/

“Self Study Guides Currently Available”

http://web.archive.org/web/20010203135500/cit.rcc.on.ca/cscourse.htm

8051 Microcontrollers 80×86 Assembler C Programming Data Communications Data Structures Embedded Systems Excel 2000 Hardware Introduction – I Hardware Introduction – II Internet: An introduction Internet Management MS-DOS Networks: An Introduction Operating Systems Pascal Programming PowerPoint 2000 Research: An Introduction Windows 2000 Server Windows 3.1 Windows 95 Windows NT Server v4.0 Word 2000 WWW/HTML/Multi-media Unix Visual Basic 6.0