Developer tutorials/0

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Before starting these tutorials, I'd suggest going through and making sure you have a basic background in these things, since it'll make all our lives much easier. I'm trying to make these tutorials so that someone who's never seen a computer before (but has access to one now) could go through them, even without access to an XO.

Computer/internet experience

You should be able to...

• Turn on a computer
• Use a mouse or touchpad
• Type (it doesn't have to be fast)
• Log into the computer
• Find files on your computer
• Copy, move, and rename files
• Start and shut down a program (any program)
• Connect to the internet
• Open a web browser and go to a web page if the address is given to you - for instance, http://wiki.laptop.org - and to click on a link to go to a new page
• Put a CD, SD card, and/or USB thumbdrive into a computer and access the files on it
• Log out of the computer
• Shut down the computer

How to learn

You'll need to have access to a physical computer to do these things; the best way to learn these skills is probably to have somebody show you, and then try to work through the list yourself. It will probably take 1-3 hours to get comfortable with this.

Things I don't assume

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