Computer Skills Resources - Champaign-Urbana

If you are interested in acquiring or tuning your computer skills please see the list below to find a level code or competency type that you’re interested in!

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Beginner

Intermediate

Expert

Miscellaneous

Beginner:

If you are new to using the computer, it may be best to go to the Public Computing Page. On this page there is a table that will show locations of publicly accessible computers. In the table there is also information on one-on-one help. On this page there is also a link to Computer Support and Training as well as a list of the Public Places with free wireless.

Intermediate:

If you are comfortable using the computer and you would like to improve your sills here are a few link to helpful definitions and programs:

Learn about Web 2.0:

Web 2.0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

Free Audio Editing Programs: Audacity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audacity_(audio_editor)

Online classes: Coursera http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coursera

Free Image editors: GIMP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMP

As you get more comfortable with computing you may want to look into using open source software, some of which has already been listed above. Open source software is coding systems or programs that are free to download and install, and also free to alter if you’d like. Here are a few key resources on information regarding open source software and open source projects:

Open Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source

Free and open-source softwarehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software

Free Software http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software

GNU Project http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Project

This page is where you can learn about the connection effort in Champaign:

Broadband- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadband

Expert:

If you are very comfortable with computers and you need resources to more advanced tools for learning how to fine-tune your skills:

Computer Coding

Command line interface http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_line

HTML 5 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Html5

CSS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Css

XML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xml

Python programming language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)

Object oriented programming http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming

Document Object Model- is a cross platform and language-independent convention for representing and interacting with objects in other coding languages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_Object_Model

Miscellaneous Links:

Calculus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus

Geographic Information System http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_information_system

SQL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL

MySQL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL

PHP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Php

phpMyAdmin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP_my_admin

LAMP software bundle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAMP_(software_bundle)

Apache HTTP web server http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_HTTP_Server

Serato http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serato

Traktor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traktor

Relational database http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_database