Computer Literacy: Teach Yourself

Teach Yourself C Programming in One Hour a Day

What Does Financial Literacy Training Teach Us?

This paper uses data from a finance-related theme park located at Junior Achievement in Los Angeles to explore how financial education changes investment, financing, and consumer behavior. In the Finance Park, students were assigned fictitious life situations and asked to create household budgets for these roles. Some students received a 19-hour financial literacy curriculum before going to the...

Can we teach digital natives digital literacy?

In recent years, there has been much debate about the concept of digital natives, in particular the differences between the digital natives’ knowledge and adoption of digital technologies in informal versus formal educational contexts. This paper investigates the knowledge about educational technologies of a group of undergraduate students studying the course Introduction to eLearning at a univ...

- Sams Teach Yourself CORBA in 14 Days - Programming - CORBA

Teach Yourself CORBA in 14 Days is a tutorial that will provide an introduction to distributed system development using CORBA. The first week will provide the reader with much needed guidance towards the general concepts of distributed software development and CORBA architecture such as Object Request Broker (ORBs), and Interface Definition Language (IDL). It will build upon the principles of o...

A Methodical Formative Evaluation of Computer Literacy Course: What and How to Teach

The use of computers has become pervasive and essential in today’s world. Most of the universities offer a basic computer literacy course to the students. To meet the demand of computerliterate graduates, it is important to determine what constitutes a desired computer literacy course and how they should be taught. Formative evaluation of computer literacy should be conducted at universities so...