Learning From a Blank Slate

[Addicted]

I have a friend who has been increasingly interested in computers, and he wants to learn as much as he can. Problem is, he's not sure where to start. He knows very little about computers, and I don't have the time or expertise to teach him. Do any of you have any good resources that he can use to learn? Any books, websites, videos, etc. Thank you in advance :)

[Glaith]

Youtube will be his friend his very lucky to have 10000000 videos at his disposel, When I grew up I just pulled apart every computer I could get my hands on and learnt my self, Best advice I can say is buy a cheap pentium 3 or somthing fidle with that. It will all come to him very quickly. Even if you show him once what goes where and how it works, Im sure he will pick it up in no time, And if he wants to fiddle with a OS once again get him to do it on a old PC he won't care if he stuffs up. But yeh Youtube and google is his best mate.

[Addicted]

Youtube will be his friend his very lucky to have 10000000 videos at his disposel, When I grew up I just pulled apart every computer I could get my hands on and learnt my self, Best advice I can say is buy a cheap pentium 3 or somthing fidle with that. It will all come to him very quickly. Even if you show him once what goes where and how it works, Im sure he will pick it up in no time, And if he wants to fiddle with a OS once again get him to do it on a old PC he won't care if he stuffs up. But yeh Youtube and google is his best mate.

Awesome, thanks for the reply :) I think I might show him around my computer and explain the components to him, and have him do further research online

[Glaith]

I have a couple of build vids here, there pretty bad lol. but they will help him get into it a bit more.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Glathier/videos?flow=grid&view=0

[Night]

Exactly what Glathier said. I built my computer last year, only being familiar with software and OS's. I looked around on youtube and subbed to NCIXcom and LinusTechTips. Thats where I learnt 99% of how to build my computer. I remember breaking down an old computer we had in the garage and excitedly showing my mum what every component was called, even down to the individual parts like the socket and PCIe lanes.

Tell your friend to go back and watch all of the NCIXcom and LinusTechTips videos. :D

[fishymamba]

http://www.tomshardware.com/ has some pretty good articles on computer related things.

But the best way to learn about computers is to build one and research everything before you buy a part.

It will also help taking apart old computers that don't work anymore, like Night said.