There are three types of software involved--this hypertext manual meant to be used with a Web browser (such as the one clicked on with the Internet icon on your deskpad if you are using Windows 95), a set of programs designed to be run with DOS or Windows 3.1 or Windows 95, and a set of PLNQD drills (also DOS or Windows 3.1 or Windows 95) that allow self-tests for mastery of the material. Move through the manual at your own pace, but make sure you practice--and practice extensively--with the programs and drills.
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If you are taking this as a credit course, you already have additional information on electronic links with your instructor and directions on how you are to take the required exams.
Please note that you are licensed to use these materials and also to share them, but any commercial use otherwise is strictly prohibited. That means they cannot be sold or distributed in packages of programs (such as shareware programs) that are sold. The specific notation (PLN) may, however, be freely used in any other applications, including commercial ones, provided there is no claim to original authorship or any effort to restrict the free use of PLN by others.
The PLN notation and these materials were authored by
Professor Douglass McFerran of Los Angeles Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California 91371, USA.
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