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 Web resources

General

AUSe.Net - the Australian Electronic Business Network is a national, not-for-profit organisation that has been formed to encourage small business awareness and adoption of electronic commerce.

Australian WWW Servers - a service from Charles Sturt University to help you find Australian web services.

e-Business Guide - provides information and resources about e-business for small businesses in Australia and for those who advise them.

Internet Public Library (IPL): Computing & Internet - includes information technology, computing machines, their connections, and their capabilities.

PC Webopaedia - a free online dictionary for words, phrases and abbreviations that are related to computer and Internet technology.

TechEncyclopedia - online encyclopaedia containing over 20,000 technical terms and concepts.

The Virtual Library: Computing - provides a range of links concerning computing.

WWWomen: Computers - links to women's sites on the web related to computing. Mainly sites developed and maintained by women; provides good role model material for women.

Yahoo's Computer Science Index - gateway into computing sites on the net.

4GL & database programming

SQL Standards Page - designed to be a central source of information about the SQL standards process and its current state.

Yahoo's Database list - links to DBMSs, concepts, SQL, organizations, user groups

Yahoo's Computer Science list - resources, tutorials, concepts, FAQs

Multimedia

Scala Multimedia Directory - comprehensive site with links to resources on FAQs, Guides, Tutorials, Software

Yahoo's Multimedia list - links to organisations, programming, VR, journals

Object oriented design/programming

CETUS - this page collects pointers to various information sources on the World Wide Web related to objects and components.

Object-Oriented Programming Concepts - a primer.

What is Object Oriented Software? - overview of object programming concepts and languages.

Operating systems

The Linux Documentation Project - links to guides, how-to's, FAQs, etc.

Linux Gazette - an online WWW publication dedicated to two simple ideas: making Linux just a little more fun and sharing ideas and discoveries.

Linux Online - a general information site about the Linux operating system.

Linux Journal - a wide range of information and issues are covered in this online journal.

Yahoo's Operating Systems list - links to tutorials, resources, FAQs, support

World Wide Web

Saint Joseph's University - Computer Science web links.

Sun Developer Network (SDN) - guide to information about the Java language, associated events, reference materials and resources for users and developers, and examples of how Java is changing the shape of the Web.

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential.

Yahoo's World Wide Web list - links to a wide range of information from basic to advanced.

 Other information

Additional information for this area may available via the wide variety of social software (link to Wikipedia) & other Internet services where people share their knowledge and connect/collaborate/communicate with others around the world who have similar interests. Some of these services (with main links to Wikipedia articles) are: 

• Wikis where information is published online through the collaborative input of many people - this information is then available for all to access & edit.
    • wikipedia  - an encyclopaedia with versions in a number of languages
    • wikispaces - used by individuals, education & special interest groups   
   
• Blogs (or web logs) are essentially online journals or diaries presented in reverse chronological order. Groups often use them to promote informal discussion on particular topics or issues.
    • blogger - search for relevant blogs with keywords of your choice
   
• RSS - this is a way of having a summary of information (or feeds) 'delivered' to your web browser or aggregator as it becomes available from online newspapers, magazines or special interest websites.
    • bloglines - an excellent way of managing your RSS subscriptions or Feeds
    
• Social bookmarking sites where users post their list of bookmarks (or favourite websites) for others to search and view. There are specialised services for particular interest groups.
    • del.icio.us is perhaps the best known general social bookmaking service
   
• Newsgroups & mailing lists are older types of Internet services (or forums) which are mainly used these days by special interest groups.
    • tile.net allows you to do keyword searches of these services

To find out more about these and the many other online information services available, explore Wikipedia further as well as its related Wikimedia Foundation projects.

 Teaching resources

Curriculum Centres provide information and resources for TAFE NSW educational staff relating to this area on their Intranet website - this is only accessible to staff from within the TAFE NSW computer network.

Last updated: 03 April, 2008

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