OT: Mentoring Mac NewBies
Dan Shafer
revdan at danshafer.com
Sun Feb 6 01:49:15 EST 2005
I can second the recommendation of Pogue's book as the mentor of two
people very much like the one you describe.
Dan
On Feb 5, 2005, at 5:33 PM, JOHN RUSSELL wrote:
> I think David Pogue's Mac OS X: Panther Edition, the Missing Manual
> (O'Reilly) might be a help to you. It's over 700 pages in length, but
> quoting from the back cover, here's how it starts:
> "Getting started: The early chapters demystify the Dock, windows, and
> the unfamilar Mac OS X folder structure - - an ideal introduction."
> Here is a partial list of early major topics from the table of
> contents:
> Folders and Windows
> Organizing Your Stuff
> Dock, Desktop, and Toolbar
> etc., etc....probably much more than you want to know.
> This book is available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and any online tech
> bookstore, as well.
>
>
>> If she wanted to, on her own, "get up to speed," are their any
>> learning resources on the web to get someone who doesn't even know
>> what you mean when you say "The Finder" up to a new level of computer
>> fluency... I'm not talking about making this level of newbie a
>> programmer, just conversant in how to use the machine works,
>> navigate, etc.
>> I'm familiar with the Mac's own "For New Computer Users" in the
>> help... but am looking for other similar resources as well.
>
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