resources

background

• software tools - editors, compilers, statistics, etc
• Copyright and Plgiarism
• creative commons
• the command line
  • linux terminal command line
    • learning the shell
    • book (free pdf)
  • http://conqueringthecommandline.com/book (free to read in web page, $ for print or ebook)

books

• Jeanna Matthews' Computer Networking : Internet Protocols in Action
• Joe Kraynak's The Complete Idiot's Guide to HTML5 and CSS3 (better overview than the title suggests; $13 kindle)
• The "missing manual" series looks interesting, though I haven't used 'em. (html5, css3)
• others (though many presume some web knowledge)
  • HTML and CSS : Design and Build Websites
  • The Modern Web : Multi Device Development with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript
  • ... search "html5 css3" on amazon & check out the reviews.
  • Free computer & internet books online

networking

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_the_Internet
• http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Internet_Technologies
• TCP/IP Guide - contents (huge online book)
• HTTP Packets illustrated (protected)
• assigned port numbers (from IANA)

html & css

• W3C Web Education Wiki
• MDN (Mozilla Developer Network)
  • css3 reference (MDN)
  • html5 reference (MDN)
• http://www.w3fools.com - why w3schools is problematic
• UX Crash Course - user experience design
• books
  • Head First with HTML (rent for 1 month for $8.36)
• http://diveintohtml5.info/
• http://www.csszengarden.com/ - many sublime css styles of the same content
• http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/ - "Learn good design by looking at bad pages."

javascript and html5

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript
• http://phaser.io/ - a 2D game development environment (discussion)
• http://threejs.org/ - webgl graphics

tools

• base convert - IP address subnet
• http://www.wireshark.org - looking at real packets
• git - distributed source code management
  • includes a nice Git Bash command line shell on Windows
    • with ssh terminal & openssl public/private authentication key stuff

web servers

• XAMPP - Apache + MySQL + PHP + Perl (windows, mac, linux) - quick & easy playground
• Apache

internet discussion topics

• advertising
  • wikipedia: adwords | wikipedia: adsense
  • Wired: click fraud
• privacy and security
  • google "snowden" and/or "NSA" ...
  • wikipedia: internet privacy
  • White House "Internet Bill of Rights" announcement | full text
  • W3C Security FAQ
• piracy
  • wikipedia: copyright infringement
  • wikipedia: stop online piracy act

fun stuff

• wikipedia: April 1st RFC