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On 17/11/12 23:22, Andries vanTonder wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">I am on disability pension - and would like to get better involved. My
disability is physical not intellectual, although my brains is rusting
up a bit.
My first problem is that I do not have money to pay for an officially
recognised course.
I was an expert, many years ago when operating systems like NOS, CP/M,
PCDOS, DRDOS and MSDOS were the in thing. With Windows I progressed up
to Windows 98. That will explain how far I am behind. Programming wise I
used to be conversant in BASIC, COBOL, dBASE (up to III), Pascal,
Assembly.
About UBUNTU, I cannot even get my scanner working but I am keen to
learn and have another 20 or so years where I can be of help provided
that I get learning again. (I am only 60).
To get me really involved I need someone to "manage my learning". Any
suggestion will be welcomed.
Firstly, I need to learn and understand the basics - disk maps, basic
I/O, - the equivalent of io.sys, msdos.sys and command.com (using dos as
an example).
Who is there to help me? As a retired college lecturer I am willing to
reformat the knowledge I gain into lectures to help others (where
needed).
BTW - my 11 year old son is also a big UBUNTU fan and has bought several
scrapped PC's to life, saving their owners lots of money.
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<pre>Hi Andries,
Thanks for joining the discussion. Regarding your questions I'm not sure where to go.
Are you aware of the many free quality courses available online?
If you have not already done so I would suggest browsing the courses on offer at:
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-15"><a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/">http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/</a>
and
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-15"><a href="https://www.coursera.org/courses">https://www.coursera.org/courses</a>
There is a plethora of other online resources that should fit the bill for you.
I'm definitely not the best person to give advice on this so I'll stop now.
Kind Regards,
Mike
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