Carol Vorderman's Guide to the Internet: The Internet for You and Your Family with CD - Hardcover

Rob Young; Carole Vorderman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0130799831 ISBN 13: 9780130799838

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1998

Synopsis

Quick and easy guide to understanding the Internet and exploring the World Wide Web. Carol Vorderman is well-known as a popular science educator through her TV work. This title covers the basics for beginners, with emphasis on helping parents use the Net to improve their children's education.

About this title

Review:

Vorderman's reputation as popular science's woman of the moment receives another boost with this helpful guide, co-written with Internet specialist and all-round computer guru Rob Young. The book is designed for the absolute Internet beginner, and the early chapters should be worked through in sequence. An introductory chapter answers the question "What is the Internet?" It outlines essentials like the equipment you need to get onto the Internet, explains what an ISP actually does, and gets a bit technical when it deciphers domain names. Subsequent chapters give advice on choosing an ISP, getting onto the Web, using e-mail and newsgroups, and getting into Internet Relay Chat.

Later chapters can be dipped into as the mood takes you. They cover using the Internet for specific purposes: keeping up with the news, learning and working, pursuing your hobbies and, to top things off, building your own Web site. These chapters in particular are littered with examples of Web resources, and, on the whole, the book tends to explain using examples and clear, simple graphics, making it extremely accessible to the less computer literate among us. --Sandra Vogel

From the Back Cover:

Written specifically for UK beginners, Carol Vorderman and Rob Young explain all the mysteries of the Internet in a clear and friendly style. If you want to get online and you don't know where to start, look no further than this simple best-selling guide.

* Get yourself connected to the Internet - all you need to know plus all the software you need to do it

* Discover and explore the World Wide Web - what you can find and how to find it

* Use the Internet to contact others - email, newsgroups, online chat and live conversation

* The Internet and your family - education, entertainment and security

* How to create your own Web site - easy-to-follow tips and advice

* CD inside - free internet access, directory of sites, Internet Explorer 5, jargon-busting reference and much more

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0130799831
• ISBN 13: 9780130799838
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 250