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Sams Teach Yourself Computer Basics in 24 Hours (3rd Edition) (Sams Teach Yourself)
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by Jill Freeze
Sales Rank: 1011420
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List Price: $29.99
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Paperback: 512 pages
Publisher: Sams; 3 edition October 13, 2001
Language: English
ISBN-10: 067232301X
ISBN-13: 978-0672323010
Product Dimensions:
9.1 x 7.2 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
Product Review
If you want to learn how to use a Windows-based personal computer (as opposed to a Macintosh), you'll be confronted with a learning curve. Teach Yourself Computer Basics in 24 Hours teaches you Windows 98 conventions so you're able to use and enjoy your computer.
Unlike many other books for new users, this book is text-heavy, foregoing comic-book-like sequences in favor of numbered steps. The author begins by identifying the parts of a personal computer and helping you find the floppy disk drive, the mouse, and the other major components. She then steps back a bit, explaining how to assemble a typical PC right out of its box and start it up. Then, she details the critical conventions of Windows, explaining what a file is, how to use nested folders, and how to adjust screen resolution. She walks the reader through the Internet Setup Wizard (which the reader will use to get online) and touches on using Windows 98's Internet applications. She also explains a little bit about Microsoft Word, Microsoft FrontPage Express, Microsoft Works, and Microsoft Money 98.
Sometimes the author assumes that the settings on a reader's machine are a certain way, when there is more than one possibility for the settings--this could confuse a nervous new user. Aside from this flaw, Teach Yourself Computer Basics in 24 Hours is a competent introductory computer guide. --David Wall
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Book Description
Sams Teach Yourself Computer Basics in 24 Hours is the replacement documentation that you don't get with sub-$1000 computers.
It's designed to be an "all-in-one solution" to help users to get up and running on their computer and learn all the software applications that came pre-loaded on their system.
This book is a cost-efficient alternative for the user who will probably not purchase separate books on general PCs, Windows, the Internet, Word, and Excel.
Customer Reviews & Comments
Okay, really this could be just the book for you...Depends on what your looking to learn. I was supposed to buy this book for a computer class and i did, only to find that nothing in the book was helpful. I passed the class with flying colors, but with no thanks to this book!
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