• Links to other sites
• Recommended books

Links to Other Sites

• Computer Basics
  • Basic Computer Tutorial

• The Internet
  • World Wide Web: A Guide to Cyberspace
  • Internet - John December's list of sources about the Internet
  • Internet Timeline - a chronological timetable of the development of the Internet

• Web Searching
  • Boolean Searching on the Internet
  • Choose the Best Search Engine for Your Information Needs
  • How to Choose a Search Engine
  • Evaluating Internet Information

• HTML and Web Pages
  • HTML Made Really Easy - As it says - quick and easy with many clear examples.
  • Writing HTML: A tutorial for creating WWW pages - learn how to design Web pages using on-line lessons. Well done and easy to follow.
  • Bare Bones Guide to HTML - A concise "cheat sheet" that can be used to look up basic syntax.
  • Crash course in HTML - A cute feature here is the little quiz after the tutorial.

• JavaScript
  • Learn JavaScript
  • Yahoo's JavaScript site
  • Mozilla's JavaScript Central
  • 30-Step JavaScript Primer by Joe Burns
  • Short JavaScript tutorials on specific topics

• RGB Color Codes
  • RGB code converter - Allows you to enter different color codes and preview the color.

References

• Computers in general / Windows
  • Baase, A Gift of Fire, Third edition, Prentice Hall, 2008.
  • Beekman, Computer Confluence: Concise Edition, Prentice Hall, 2005.
  • Brookshear, Computer Science: An Overview, 10th edition Addison-Wesley, 2008.
  • Dale and Lewis, Computer Science Illuminated, Third edition, Jones and Bartlett, 2007.
  • Rawlins, Slaves of the Machine, MIT Press, 1997.
  • Reed, A Balanced Introduction to Computer Science, Second edition, Prentice-Hall, 2007.

    Here is a list of errors we have found in the Reed book.

  • Snyder, Fluency with Information Technology: Skills, Concepts and Capabilities, Fourth edition, Pearson, 2010.
  • Venit, Walker, The Limits of Computing, Jones & Bartlett, 1994.

• The Internet and HTML
  • Comer, The Internet: Everything you need to know about computer networking and how the Internet works, Fourth edition, Prentice-Hall, 2006.
  • Gralla, How the Internet Works, QUE, 2002.
  • Lehnert, Web 101 , Addison-Wesley, 2007.
  • Musciano and Kennedy, HTML: The Definitive Guide, 4th edition, O'Reilly and Associates, 2000.

• JavaScript
  • Flanagan, JavaScript: the Definitive Guide, 5th edition O'Reilly, 2006.
  • Lin, Quickstart to JavaScript, Addison-Wesley, 2000.