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last update: October 31st, 2004

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Name of Program or technology	How I learnt it	*Expertise level (=basic knowledge / *=expert knowledge)
Microsoft Word	Self-taught / experimentation Help documentation	***
Microsoft Excel	Self-taught / experimentation Help documentation	**1/2
Microsoft Access	Through reading Access 2003 Bible Self-taught / experimentation	*
Microsoft Outlook	Self-taught / experimentation	**1/2
Microsoft Windows (all consumer versions)	Self-taught / experimentation Magazine articles	***
MySQL	Peachpit Press: MySQL and PHP Wrox: PHP, MySQL, and Apahce Books247.com Internet Forums Self-experimentation Help documentation	*1/2
Macromedia Flash	Internet Forums Self-experimentation Help documentation Friends of ED: Macromedia Flash MX Peachpit press: Flash 6.0	**1/2
Macromedia Dreamweaver	Internet Forums Self-experimentation Books247.com Help documentation	***
Macromedia Coldfusion Server (formerly Allaire Coldfusion Server)	Internet Forums Self-experimentation Books247.com Help documentation	*
3D Studio Max	High School Course: Yearbook 11 Experimentation	1/2
Adobe Photoshop	High School Course: Yearbook 11 Experimentation	*1/2
Macromedia Fireworks	Self-experimentation Help documentation	**1/2
Autodesk AutoCAD (2004)	Wiley: AutoCAD 2004 Bible Work place training: Stantec Consulting Inc. Experimentation	**
Swift 3D	Experimentation	*
Microsoft Visual Studio (6.0 & .NET academic)	Experimentation MSDN help documentation theSpoke.net	*
UNIX & Linux (RedHat / SuSe / Mandrake / Solaris)	Experimentation (successfully installed in home computer) UBC	*1/2
Microsoft Access	Books247.com Access 2003 Bible	*1/2 (able to successfully interface with Coldfusion front-end)
MathCAD	Help documentation	**
Mathematica	Help documentation Eric Weisstein's Wolfram Mathworld	*
Matlab	Help documentation UBC Course: Math 152 (linear algebra)	*
Cygwin	Experimentation	***
Skype	Experimentation	***
MSN Messenger	Experimentation Help documentation	***
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)	Experimentation Help documentation	*1/2
Microsoft Personal Web Server (PWS)	Experimentation Help documentation	**
SmartFTP	Experimentation Help documentation	**1/2
mIRC (IRC = Internet Relay Chat)	Experimentation Help documentation	**
Microsoft FrontPage	Experimentation Help documentation	*** (I used FrontPage to quickly create this humble site)
Microsoft Project	Experimentation Help documentation	*1/2 (able to create Gantt charts. SEXY!)

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C++	UBC Courses: CPSC 152, CPSC 252 Internet sites Books247.com	**
Java	High school courses (@ Prince of Wales): Infotech 12 Java the easy way	*1/2
PHP	Peachpit Press: MySQL and PHP Wrox: PHP, MySQL, and Apahce Books247.com Internet Forums Self-experimentation	**
SQL	Peachpit Press: MySQL and PHP Wrox: PHP, MySQL, and Apahce Books247.com Internet Forums Self-experimentation Help documentation	*1/2
Flash ActionScript	Self-experimentation Help documentation Friends of ED: Actionscript for Flash MX 6.0	**
JavaScript	Wrox: JavaScript for the beginner	**
CFM (Coldfusion Markup Language)	Self-experimentation	*
HTML	Self-experimentation	***
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)	Self-experimentation	*1/2
XML	Self-experimentation	*

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Function Generator	UBC Course: Physics 153, Physics 259
Oscilloscope	UBC Course: Physics 153, Physics 259
Multimeter	UBC Course: Physics 153, Physics 259
Radioshack 200-1 Electronics Lab Kit	Experimentation documentation	** (I have done about 70-80 projects, which include digital logic circuits and the like)
Elehobby Line Sensing Robot	Experimentation documentation	***
Elehobby Medusa Clap and Walk Robot	St. George's Summer Camp	***