COMPUTING FOR THE BEWILDERED

Intermediate Classes

(Very Provisional) Syllabus

This is a brief resumé of what will be covered during the sessions.  It is not fixed in tablets of stone.  After the mid session interval, there will be plenty of opportunity for students to discuss other matters which may arise from time to time. The amount of revision of topics already covered, and the speed at which we proceed will be determined by the needs of the (average) students.  

Before Christmas:

Revision: Turning on and off, the keyboard, hardware and software, commercial matters, the Internet.

 

"Office" applications: Word processing and Spreadsheet

 

File management: organising files, creating, moving, copying and deleting files.  The File Allocation Table. File paths under Windows and Unix.

 

Computer housekeeping: Defragmentation, backup, cleaning of unwanted files, the registry

 

After Christmas

 

The Internet: Software download and installation; ZIPs and RARs, FTP, binary newsgroups.

 

Websites: The very basics of HTML

 

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