Sams Teach Yourself the Internet in 10 Minutes - Softcover

Grimes, Galen; Bolton, Rick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0672313200 ISBN 13: 9780672313202

Publisher: Sams, 1998

Synopsis

Sams Teach Yourself the Internet in 10 Minutes is a tutorial-based book, organized into a series of easy-to-follow, 10-minute lessons. These well-targeted lessons teach you in 10 minutes what some books take several hours or days to teach. You'll learn how to: utilize the most popular Internet services (including the World Wide Web and e-mail); find the hottest Web sites; understand multimedia on the Web; create your own Web page; join newsgroups; make long distance phone calls for free; and play games online.

• Ten minute lessons teach readers to use Netscape Navigator(TM) or Interent Explorer to browse the web, search the internet using search engines, and send and receive mail
• Any task can be completed in less than ten minutes to get you back to work quickly!
• Perfect first choice for anyone who's used similar software in the past, newcomers to a subject or infrequent users of software or technology.

About this title

Review

The second edition of Sams Teach Yourself the Internet in 10 Minutes is informatively written and a good value for your money. The book is split into 18 10-minute "lessons," which cover the usual ground of how to establish an Internet connection, how to use a Web browser, how to send and receive e-mail, how to conduct online chats, Usenet, mailing lists, and file transfer using FTP. Some of the later lessons also talk about online shopping and the benefits and drawbacks of Web-based e-mail.

The author, Galen Grimes, has an extensive background in computers and the Internet. His coverage of the latest and greatest offering from Netscape and Microsoft show that the book is reasonably up to date. However, in places it hasn't been updated thoroughly enough, resulting in a few gremlins. For example, there haven't been anywhere near 18,000 newsgroups since about 1997.

The book successfully breaks down the key features of each application and explains how they work, with help from useful screen shots and step-by-step instructions. It also includes a comprehensive and well-structured index. This is an ideal book for any Net-newbie looking for a no-nonsense initiation to the Internet, and a guide to the ways of the Web. --Josh Smith, amazon.co.uk

From the Back Cover

Sams Teach Yourself the Internet in 10 Minutes, Second Edition is a quick, efficient reference to getting connected to the Internet, sending and receiving e-mail, finding and browsing Web sites, reading and posting to newsgroups, and generally applying the Internet to your everyday office and home life. Only the most common problems and most frequently used Internet tasks are covered - from finding a good Internet service provider, to protecting your online financial transactions, to creating a simple page on the World Wide Web. This new edition of the book will be thoroughly revised and updated to include coverage of new products and technologies like Windows 98, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5, Netscape Communicator 5, and America Online 4.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sams
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0672313200
• ISBN 13: 9780672313202
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 185