For absolute beginners.
Online tutorials.
- BBC – First Click — Our page with links to the First Click online course.
- BBC – Absolute beginners’ guide to using computers (with sound) — A good starting point, but beginning to show its age. Most learners can get to the end in a single two-hour session, and are rewarded by a certificate that they can print off.
- BBC – Absolute beginners’ guide to using computers — This version does not use sound, and is preferable in some ways.
- BBC – Connect — Guides, games and information for beginners.
Typing skills.
You don’t need to learn touch-typing unless you are going to write a book – but improving your keyboard skills is always useful. Try the exercises below. Stop when you get bored!
- Rapid Typing Zone — ten games for beginners.
- Sense-lang — five games for beginners.
- TypingTest — typing speed tests.
- typeonline — five touchtype lessons.
