We the 21st century folks really have it good. We all can point to our parents and what education and learning was during their time before the advent of the Internet. All the education me from those voluminous text books that heaven helps you if you can't read them. It was a always a battle as they hardly had all the materials they needed to excel, as only a few students had access to all these expensive learning aids. The exercises in the Larcombes Class 4 edition my dad owned back in the day is enough to make an undergraduate shake with fear owing to the very tough questions in it.
But, thank God for technology, we don't have to go through all these harrowing ordeals in order to be better students today. The internet is awash with millions of resources to help us.
It is unfortunate that especially in this part of the world, almost 80% of our Internet usage is dedicated to mundane things like posting pictures on facebook, tweeting, Instagram, Snapchatting and the likes. This is not necessarily a bad thing (I am a social media freak myself), but just looking at this year's JAMB and the total number of people posting solutions online makes you wonder whether people would want to actually study anymore. For most people they are actually ignorant of the vast resource on the Internet. So without further ado I will go right into it:
Free Learning Websites
Google.com
I mean, this is the most obvious you can get. There is no denying that this search giant has made our digital life easier.
As students with assignments, just copy all or parts of your work on to Google Search box and you will be surprised to see different indexed sites relating to your question.
Another little trick you can use for Google is by using "index of (anything you want), e.g. Index of Advanced Excel tutorials. You would see several links to your desired resource.
Another style I learnt from a departmental mate of mine is by using
"C++ programming tutorials with worked examples and exercises". This not only brings out resources for learning C++ but also worked examples for you to understand what has been taught and also practice exercises.
YouTube.com
The only reason this is not on top of the pile is because it is owned by Google. Anyone can learn anything, I mean anything on YouTube. All you need is attention and sufficient data for the streaming of videos. Alternatively, you can do what I normally do, which is by using a third party application application to download these videos for later.
As we all know that we learn new things faster by seeing, definitely YouTube is the ultimate place to be academically liberated and get ahead.
Wikihow.com
This ordinarily won't pass for a tutorial site, as it is essentially a brush-up or it just summarises stuff you need to learn. Still, it is a very good website as it points you to resources or things you should search for IN order to get what you want.
They offer tutorials on almost anything, from how to write in Roman Numerals to showing you how to solve complex differential equations
Tutorialspoint.com
This is the ultimate web page for any beginner that wishes to quickly move forward in his chosen field. They offer tutorials on a very wide range of topics with very simple, non-technical terms so you won't be at sea. Their tutorials also have downloadable PDF files.
W3schools.com
This is exclusively for people intending to get in the IT industry. Various tutorials on programming languages exists there which are succinctly explained with accompanying exercises for you to gauge your knowledge and be a better student.
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