Scott Nazelrod
Articles
Welcome to the articles page. This page gives you links to some great stuff that I (or one of my friends) have written.
Technical
These articles are about computers. The Beginner's Guides are comprehensive textbooks about a topic, and as such take a long time to write and are all unfinished. Most of the others are finished, though.
- A Beginner's Guide to XHTML
Want to learn XHTML? Now you can with this free online resource. It's an exercise-based approach, similar to a textbook, making it ideal for classroom learning. It's still a work in progress - only 4 chapters have been written.
- A Beginner's Guide to Windows Computing
This is the "book of everything" about computers. It covers everything from Windows basics, to Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, to the Internet, pictures, and more. It, as well, is a work in progress - only 2 chapters (12 sections) have been written.
- Programming the Sharp EL-9600c and EL-9900
Save yourself some time by learning how to use your Sharp graphing calculator's built-in programming functions.
Linux
In mid-2005 I moved from a Windows XP machine to a brand new box with Fedora Core 4. Since then I've been a Linux user. Here's some articles about that.
- 20 reasons
...why Linux is superior to Windows. Off the top of my head, because someone was interested.
- Linux Hints
Things you need to keep in mind going from Windows to Linux.
- Compiling from Source on Linux
One of the things that boggles some people looking around Linux is that some programs have to be compiled from source code. It's not so hard. The why and the how-to about compiling from source on Linux.
- How to make a new card deck in KPat 4
KDE4's not quite out the door yet, but I probed into it and came out with a fresh deck of cards. Here's how you can do that too.
Other
These aren't about computers. They're mostly opinion essays rants.