Absolute Beginner's Guide to Databases brings the elements of a database together using easy to understand language, perfect for the true beginner. It not only gives specific hands on practice, but also provides an overview of designing, maintaining and using a database. This book covers what databases are used for, why databases are important, why the design of the database is important, database normalization, keys to solid database design, differences...

Absolute Beginner's Guide to Networking, Fourth Edition gives readers the ability and understanding necessary to create and administer a network. The book shows the reader how to physically connect computers and other devices to a network and access peripherals such as printers over the network. Readers will also be able to configure computers to access the network and the network to share an Internet connection. This book will provide easy-to-understand...

Absolute Beginner¿s Guide to Windows XP Media Center teaches the reader all about the technology that Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates calls the centerpiece of his vision for the home of the future. After all, why settle for just a television set, a DVD player/recorder, an MP3 audio jukebox, a game machine, a digital photo viewer or a personal video recorder when you can have all of the devices wrapped up inside a nimble...

Finally, there's an authoritative guide to home networking. Absolute Beginner's Guide to Home Networking goes far beyond traditional printer or Internet sharing, and is geared to help readers: *Understand home network types and concepts. *Install, configure and interconnect various types of wired and wireless networks to achieve the desired goals of entertainment, information access, and home security/control with Windows, MacOS, and Linux-based systems....

More and more people are learning the advantages of using Corel & rsquo;s Quattro Pro over other spreadsheet applications.¨If you have joined their ranks, this book is for you!¨Absolute Beginner & rsquo;s Guide to Quattro Pro X3 ïs endorsed by Corel, and offers a straight-forward, no-nonsense approach to the basics.Ẅith the help of this book, you will learn how to efficiently manage, analyze, report, and share data, and then move on to more advanced...

Updated for C11. Write powerful C programs, without becoming a technical expert! This book is the fastest way to get comfortable with C, one incredibly clear and easy step at a time. You'll learn all the basics: how to organize programs, store and display data, work with variables, operators, I/O, pointers, arrays, functions, and much more. C programming has neverbeen this simple! Who knew how simple C programming could be? This is today's best beginner's...

This year, millions of casual computer users will buy new Windows 8 mobile devices, notebooks, and desktop PCs. They'll want to know how to find their way around, get comfortable, and get the job done - without jargon, complexity, or hassle. There's a book for them: Michael Miller's Absolute Beginner's Guide to Computer Basics, Windows 8 Edition. It's the one book that covers everything today's beginners and near-beginners need to know: not just about...

An easy, practical beginner's guide to using Microsoft's incredibly powerful new PowerPoint 2013 presentation software - simple, reliable instructions for doing everything you really want to do.