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The Kid
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 Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 5:07 am Post subject: Books & Stuff |
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I want to learn all about computers. I really don't know as much as most people
think I do. I don't intend to become a tech or anything like that, I just want
to learn. Can I learn this kinda stuff from a book like AIO or something like
that? I don't even know if I wanna bother with getting the actual
certification, I just wanna be a spunge for the info.
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Clint Kennedy
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 5:42 am Post subject: Re: Books & Stuff |
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Sure you can. When I was younger, I'd have my mom drop me off at a
bookstore for 3 or 4 hours, find a good A+ book or something else
interesting, then sit and dig in! I learned C my 8th grade year this way
.... read a Herbert Schildt book at Border's. Even young kids 12-13ish can
understand this stuff if they have the ability to read.
Clint
"The Kid" <xatax2k1@aol.common.net> wrote in message
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| Quote: | I want to learn all about computers. I really don't know as much as most
people
think I do. I don't intend to become a tech or anything like that, I just
want
to learn. Can I learn this kinda stuff from a book like AIO or something
like
that? I don't even know if I wanna bother with getting the actual
certification, I just wanna be a spunge for the info.
Thanks. |
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Ken Briscoe
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| Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 5:36 am Post subject: Re: Books & Stuff |
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"Clint Kennedy" <clint_kennedy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:ZJWZa.75943$zy.44879@fed1read06...
| Quote: | Sure you can. When I was younger, I'd have my mom drop me off at a
bookstore for 3 or 4 hours, find a good A+ book or something else
interesting, then sit and dig in! I learned C my 8th grade year this way
... read a Herbert Schildt book at Border's. Even young kids 12-13ish can
understand this stuff if they have the ability to read.
Clint
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I agree with this, to a point. Read, read read. Mike Meyers' All-in-one
books are seriously helpful. But to retain the information, and to fully
understand it, you'll probably have to rip a few computers apart and rebuild
them. Get your hands on a few-year-old computer and have at it. You'll learn
far more by building a box from the ground up and installing the OS than you
can from a book. Of course, if everything goes right the first time, you
probably won't learn much, such as IRQs and all that good stuff. But my
advice is to get a book or two, and build a computer. Once you've done that,
you can pretty much do anything. (You know, aside from being like a DBA or
Network Administrator....but you get the point....)
KB
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The Kid
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| Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 6:37 am Post subject: Re: Books & Stuff |
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| Quote: | I agree with this, to a point. Read, read read. Mike Meyers' All-in-one
books are seriously helpful. But to retain the information, and to fully
understand it, you'll probably have to rip a few computers apart and rebuild
them.
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I have 3 older computers at my disposal. One is my mothers and she'd never let
me inside it, but the other 2 are mine, one's dead and i've been meaning to
kinda rip the other apart to build what i can into the better one (replace dead
parts in the better machine with ones from the working machine). I'll get
around to that soon enough, I was just wondering about what I could learn from
the books and got some great answers. Thanks for all the help.
Jesse |
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Geoff
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| Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 10:59 pm Post subject: Re: Books & Stuff |
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The Kid wrote:
| Quote: | I agree with this, to a point. Read, read read. Mike Meyers'
All-in-one
books are seriously helpful. But to retain the information, and to
fully understand it, you'll probably have to rip a few computers
apart and rebuild them.
I have 3 older computers at my disposal. One is my mothers and she'd
never let me inside it, but the other 2 are mine, one's dead and i've
been meaning to kinda rip the other apart to build what i can into
the better one (replace dead parts in the better machine with ones
from the working machine). I'll get around to that soon enough, I was
just wondering about what I could learn from the books and got some
great answers. Thanks for all the help.
Jesse
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best way to learn is get those old pc's and pull em apart, upgrade them etc,
repair them
in doing so anything you don't understand just do a serch on the net about
it
like, what cpu's can i put in a socket370 board ? |
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