COMPUTING FOR THE BEWILDERED

Beginners Classes

(Provisional) Syllabus

This is a brief resumé of what will be covered during the sessions.  It is not fixed in tablets of stone.  There will be plenty of opportunity for students to discuss other matters which may arise from time to time.

Before Christmas:

What is a computer?

Data in: keyboard, mouse

Data out: monitor, speakers.

Buying a computer part 1.

Starting a computer up (booting)

Use of the mouse

Use of the keyboard

Closing it down.

 

Hardware & software:

Hardware: disks

Floppy

Hard

CD-ROM.

DVD

The Desktop

starting a program

playing Freecell

typing: using Notepad.

Files: saving your work to disk.

Software licences.

Hardware components and peripherals

Modems, printers, scanners and others

Buying a computer Part 2.

After Christmas

 

The Internet

What is it.

What do you need

What can you do

 

Getting a connection

Sockets and clients

Browsing the web

Search engines

Favourites

E-mail

Configuring an account

E-mail addresses

Plain text vs. HTML

Attachments

Viruses.

 

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