Computer Basics Training in Los Angeles, CA

Introducing a series offering that will take you from little or no prior experience with computers to being able to purchase, operate, and use your own devices and communicate with your friends and family. Part 1: Basic Essentials  The first step for students with little or no prior experience with computers, covering terminology,...

The first step for students with little or no prior experience with computers, covering terminology, hardware, basic uses of computers and overcoming your fears of technology. Try this class by itself, or try the "Computers for Beginners" series.

Computers for Beginners Part 2: Windows & File Management Take your new found knowledge from Part 1: Basic Essentials and gain a fundamental understanding on how your computer operates and how to manage an electronic filing system. Try this class by itself, or try the "Computers for Beginners" series.

Learn to understand free Internet services like Gmail, Yahoo Mail!, and Microsoft’s Outlook email service. Understand how free email services work, how to send a message, how to search for friends’/family messages and how to stay safe from scammers and spammers.

Upon successful completion of this three-hour course, you will be able to identify the basic features and components of the Microsoft Project environment, create a new project plan file and enter project information and manage tasks by organizing tasks and setting task relationships. Course Outline Getting Started with Microsoft Project Explore...

Upon successful completion of this three-hour course, you will become familiar with the Visio interface and create a basic Visio document, create a route map by using Visio features to work with shapes and text, modify, format, and arrange shapes to enhance a basic diagram. This course will focus on designing and managing basic diagrams. Course...

Learn to create automated custom Excel applications using VBA. This two-day VBA Programming course helps advanced Excel users (Windows only) develop new skills writing and debugging powerful VBA code to automate workbook operations, create interactive forms, insert calculations and handle run-time errors. Prerequisites: This class is ideally suited...

HTML and CSS are the fundamental building blocks of the web. Whether you're a beginner who wants to get started in web development, a designer looking to hand-code their concepts, or a marketer who wants a little more control over their CMS, you'll need to know HTML and CSS to get the job done. This one day workshop is the quickest way to get started...

In this three-hour session for Windows and Mac users, you will learn to write complex formulas using Excel's built-in functions and array formulas. You will expand your library of functions to include financial, text parsing, logical, lookup and database functions. You will also learn to write array formulas, which are capable of performing multiple...

The last decade has seen blockchain technology grow from an anarchic financial experiment to a global engine for organizational and societal revolution. During this online workshop, we will chart the path from pre-Bitcoin computer science breakthroughs to Bitcoin and the rise of alternative currencies that challenge the way we think about money,...

SharePoint for Site Owners: Pages, Sites, Permissions and... In this one-day class, you will learn how to administrate Office 365 SharePoint websites, starting with controlling access permissions. You will then learn how to create custom lists, change the design and layout of the home page, and create additional pages, adding text, images, links and...

Imagine that you have a spreadsheet containing every data point about your customers — their preferences, their web browsing behavior, the products they’ve bought. What would you do with all that information? When you know SQL, you can slice and dice that data any way you want, providing critical insights that drive business strategy. SQL provides...

In this three-hour session, you will learn the most efficient ways to format cell text, dates and numbers, applying and defining cell styles to automate formatting. You will also create several types of charts, learning how much data to select, which chart types will best present your data, how to add and format various chart elements, and how to create...

This three-hour session teaches you how to write formulas in Excel. You will perform calculations using functions like SUM, AVERAGE, PMT and PV, write arithmetic formulas by hand, perform calculations on dates, and parse text strings with the LEFT, MID, RIGHT and SEARCH functions. You will also learn when and why to use absolute referencing (like $A$4)...

Bring your creative ideas to life with Adobe Illustrator, the industry-standard vector graphics software, used by designers and illustrators who want to create digital graphics, logos, illustrations, and original typography. This workshop is designed to get you up and running with Adobe Illustrator in just one day. The focus will be on step-by-step...