Master Foo's Institute of Technology

Prelude

Why am I here?

It is likely that you know perfectly well why you are here, but on the off chance that you don't know or are confused as to why you are here, then refer to the following line:

This Set of Tutorials Will Give You All The Skills You Need To Reasonably Operate a Computer.
But, you may answer, I know how to operate a computer. I'm reading this right now, in which I had to boot up the computer, start an application, and navigate sucessfully through the internet. That's pretty good! No, seriously, it is pretty good. After all, around 90% of the population won't need to know more than that 90% of the time. However, if you're one of those people that want to join the 10%, or are one of the 90% that has run into something that is in the difficult 10% of things regular people do, then this first set of tutorials will get you all the way from an absoulte "newbie" (just in case!) all the way to a fairly educated computer user.

Why do I need to be an educated computer user?

If you don't know how your computer works, one day, your resident nerd will not be around to help you, and your computer will fail. If that never happens to you, you are one lucky person. Aside from knowing how to recover from errors on your computer, you also should know how to learn to use new systems. It's a given that your favorite pieces of software will not last for more than a few years, and learning how to adapt to new software is something that comes with knowledge of computers. Finally, you should know your computer because if you leave your computer unprotected, a cracker will take it over, add it to his zombie horde, and you will then (to some extent) be at his mercy. Besides, computers are increasingly important; knowing how to use one proficiently gives you an advantage over all the other poor computer illiterate folks out there.

Still here? If you're a new computer user, just pop over here. On the other hand, if you know what firewall you're using, do regular virus scans, don't panick at the sight of a bsod, then you can probably just skip over to the second or third sets of tutorials. If you still don't know where to go...

Beginner tutorials

Enter the machine.

This set covers the basics. It starts off with the VERY basics (this is a monitor and this is a window) to somewhat intermediate (this is a firewall and this is a client-server relationship). You can certainly pick and choose which topics to cover, and you can use these to fill in any holes in your knowledge.

Begin.

Intermediate tutorials

Make your computer do tricks.

There are two parts (well, three) in this set: an expansion on the essentials (networking, security, and hardware), a set devoted to making content (audio, images, and video), and two tutorials that don't really belong anywhere (html and the "how to be a nerd" tutorial). Most of the content is not essential: you don't need to know it to surf the web. On the other hand, some of the content is useful for solving our 10% problems.

Begin.

Programming tutorials

Not for the faint of heart.

These are essentially programming tutorials. There is a quick walk through the history of various programming languages, and a few tutorials on various languages. After them, there are a couple of tutorials that cover topics that are useful in the programming world, but aren't programming per se, and thus get shunted to the end. You can certainly refer to them whenever you want.

Program.

With that said...

We wish you best of luck on your journey. >>> ~From the team