These a cursory reviews of several books I was reading at the time, as I did a module on Visual Basic during a HNC in Computing and Software Engineering Visual Basic Controls in a Nutshell By Evan S Dictor ©1999 O’Reilly & Associates: ISBN 1-56592-294-8 In a nutshell, it’s an excellent resource. That’s a posh […]
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Windows 2000 Server for Dummies by Ed Tittel with Mary T. Madden, James Michael Stewart ©1999 [ www.idgbooks.com ] IDG Books ~Dummies Press ISBN 0-7645-0341-3 Actually I’m quite a fan of the Dummies range which can be quite enlightening at times. The sometimes irreverent cartoons are always good too. One thing that intrigued me though
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The Complete Idiot’s Guide To Networking 3rd edition By Chrispher Negus & Bill Wagner Que Publishing: ISBN 0-7897-2469-3 Not a bad little book, especially for beginners wanting to set up a small network for their home or office or as a stepping stone / aid to networking courses like HNC, NVQ and even Network+. Coverage
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ECDL3 The Complete Course Book by Brendan Munnelly and Paul Holden Published by [ ] Prentice Hall (ISBN 0-130-90837-1) cf InformIT Everything you need to pass the European Computer Driving licence I actually read in the local paper about a girl who completed the ECDL course in two months instead of the 1 –
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Special Edition Using Excel for Windows 95 by Ron Person … Published by QUE Corporation (ISBN 0-7897-0112-X) The secrets to unleashing the full power of Excel for Windows 95 – at your fingertips. Quotes the back. Well, I don’t know about secrets as such, but it is as in-depth as you’d like,
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Microsoft Office User Specialist – Microsoft Excel 2000 – Cheat Sheet by Rick Winter Published by [ www.quecorp.com ] QUE (ISBN 0-7897-2116-3) Didn’t realise it at the time when I picked it up, but this book is actually aimed at professionals wanting to prepare for the MS MOUS exam. Apparently the book is approved
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Letts Revise A2 Computing by Roger Legg Published by Letts (ISBN 1-85805-910-0) Picked up this book by mistake actually, but I must say I like it. Any course that throws the student into the deep end with low-level assembly programming gets my vote. If I didn’t have all my other courses plotted out I’d
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Javascript Made Simple by Peter McBride Published by Made Simple Books, An imprint of Butterworth-Heinemann (ISBN 0-7506-3797-8) Walks you through fifty odd pages of HTML before it gets anywhere near Javascript. If you are delving into Javascript I would hope you have a firm grasp of web editing first myself, but there you go. Grumble
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