This is an updated guide for anyone who needs an introduction to personal computer technology, including computer programming, new technologies and shopping for a PC.

With advice from the experts, a user-friendly, hands-on approach and a 16-page, full-colour insert, this book helps users better understand their PC, realise its potential, foresee possible problems, and make the right decisions.

Code Nation explores the rise of software development as a social, cultural, and technical phenomenon in American history. The movement germinated in government and university labs during the 1950s, gained momentum through corporate and counterculture experiments in the 1960s and 1970s, and became a broad-based computer literacy movement in the 1980s. As personal computing came to the fore, learning to program was transformed by a groundswell of popular enthusiasm, exciting new platforms, and an array of commercial practices that have been further amplified by distributed computing and the Internet. The resulting society can be depicted as a “Code Nation”—a globally-connected world that is saturated with computer technology and enchanted by software and its creation. Code Nation is a new history of personal computing that emphasizes the technical and business challenges that software developers faced when building applications for CP/M, MS-DOS, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, the Apple Macintosh, and other emerging platforms. It is a popular history of computing that explores the experiences of novice computer users, tinkerers, hackers, and power users, as well as the ideals and aspirations of leading computer scientists, engineers, educators, and entrepreneurs. Computer book and magazine publishers also played important, if overlooked, roles in the diffusion of new technical skills, and this book highlights their creative work and influence. Code Nation offers a “behind-the-scenes” look at application and operating-system programming practices, the diversity of historic computer languages, the rise of user communities, early attempts to market PC software, and the origins of “enterprise” computing systems. Code samples and over 80 historic photographs support the text. The book concludes with an assessment of contemporary efforts to teach computational thinking to young people.

Network Tutorial delivers insight and understanding about network technology to managers and executives trying to get up to speed or stay current with the complex challenges of designing, constructing, maintaining, upgrading, and managing the netwo

Windows 2000 introduces many new technologies designed to improve system performance and capability. This book explains the underlying technologies and their practical implications. Topics covered include customizing the new interface, and installation and configuration wizards and options.

A revision of the first edition to include many new tips and techniques, this guide provides additions of new chapters on Active Desktop, Webcasting, Outlook Express, FrontPage Express and special needs of users migrating from other Windows operating systems and of laptop users. New and enhanced features now available with the Service Pack 3 and the NT Option Pack are also highlighted, with corresponding icons, throughout the book.

Targeting the intermediate Windows 98 user, this book provides an in-depth look at Windows 98 in jargon-free language. Readers get the total picture via advanced tips, optimization techniques and detailed architectural information.

This text covers the key topics about upgrading and repairing the core components of the PC, basic and advanced storage media, multimedia devices, and input/output devices. It also provides guidance on upgrading and repairing strategies, with special sections on troubleshooting and diagnostics.