C125 Reference Materials
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Week 6
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Week 7
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Week 9
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Week #1
- Talking about Computers
Computer History Museum
Week #2
More about Computers
How Stuff Works Resources
Bits and Bytes
How PCs Work
How Microprocessors/CPUs Work
How RAM Works
How Hard Disks Work
How Monitors Work
ePanorama.net - Tech Site with lots of Detailed Info
Tom's Hardware Guide
Internet concepts; Please see
A Brief History of the Internet
Week #3
Info about Operating Systems
Help dealing with MS Windows at
Annoyances.org
Getting Started with Linux on
linux.org
Basic Unix concepts; Please see hypertext service
UNIX help
and tutorials on
Web concepts
,
File Transfer
,
vi
and
C-shell
Best Shareware Sites
Downloads.com
- Misc Software for the price of a download!
Week #4
Info about Networks
Internet Tutorials
from University at Albany
Maps and Graphs of the Internet
MIDS Maps
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The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Communications and Telecommunications
Cisco's Internetworking Tutorials
- very techinical!
Ethernet Information
from University of Texas
Sandbox Dig - System that combines robotics, archeology, and WWW
ISDN Tutorial
Introduction to Internet Protocols
What is Telnet?
Advanced Paper on Data, Voice, Video Network Integration
eMailman - all about email and than some!
Week #4 (cont)
- HTML
An 80 slide
HTML Course
and a course on
Finding Things on the Web
by Howard Strauss.
HTML Basics
- From Webmonkey. Good site for learning HTML.
PHP Tutorial
How-To Library at Webmonkey
- Authoring, Design, Programming, Backend, etc.
WYSIWYG Editors
Netscape Communicator 4.7
- Not the best, but it's free!
Microsoft Front Page
- This is a review from PC Mag.
Macromedia Dreaweaver
- Also a review from PC Mag. You should be able to download a trial version from this site as well.
Adobe GoLive
- Free Trial Download
These are just a few of the numerous WYSIWYG Editors out there. Just make sure you try the product out before you shell out any $$$ to purchase it. You shouldn't purchase one just for this course, it's really not necessary.
Week #5
Molecular Modeling
NIH Guide to Molecular Modeling
NIH Guide to Molecular Graphics
Research Tools on the Web
Spartan
- Wavefunction, Inc.
Gaussian
Week #6
Rasmol & Chime
Rasmol Homepage
Rasmol Quick Ref
What can you learn with Rasmol
MDL Information Systems
- Chime
Protein Data Bank
World Index of Molecular Visualization Resources
The Online Macromolecular Museum
- California Lutheran University
Instructions for Viewing Rasmol Lectures
Week #7
Data Acquisition Instrument Control - "Virtual Instuments"
Lab View
Lab View White paper
- product tour on features of Lab View.
Week #8
Software for Data Storage and Processing
Mathematica
MatLab
Mathcad
Perl
and
Bioperl
PHP
MySQL
Python
and
BioPython
Week #9
Library Resources and Viz Portal
Marion Peter's Lecture
Globus Research Apps
