Focus at this Level: Using Computer for the first time, How to Shutdown and Poweron, Using a Mouse, Knowing the external parts of a computer, Practising Typing using Keyboard

If you have never used a computer or a laptop before, you will need to start from the basics. Try to do a computer course from a nearby institute or learn the basics from a family member. If he gives you 2-3 hours, you will be to do a few hours of practise by yourself to get a practise of using the mouse and the keyboard.

Topics to cover:
How to shutdown and power on the computer
Only for Desktop PC users: What are the different parts of the computer called - Monitor, CPU, UPS
How to see the remaining battery level?
Increasing volume, brightness and other things on the laptop
Changing the Desktop Background & Screensaver
Changing the Password (be careful)
How to Open MS Paint and Notepad and how to close
Left Click vs Right click
Get enough practise of using mouse
MS Paint
Make things on MS Paint to get mouse practise
Use different colors and widgets on MS Paint
Saving a file and reopening a file
Notepad
Learn typing from keyboard
Type a few documents
Type punctuation marks (comma, full stops, etc)

Why MS Paint?
Using MS Paint, gives you a practise of using the mouse and also gives  you an idea of how a typical software works (Saving, Closing). You also learn about single click vs double click.

Why Notepad?
Create a document in MS Word and type your favorite Spiritual Quotes in it. And type what those quotes mean to you.

Learning Simples Games

Alternative to MS Paint and Notepad

Practise and Practise, that is everything when you are learning using a Computer.

Basic Internet Browsing
Visit a few common websites and your favorite websites

Learn through Projects

Whether you go to any institute or not, try to do the below projects by yourself. That would teach you the above mentioned topics through hands-on practise. Take help from tech-savvy family members and friends.

Projects:

• Make a scenery in MS Paint:  Scenery 1, Scenery 2,  Scenery 3. Or make something on your own. 

• Play these simple games for a few hours: Game 1, Game 2.

• Take a book or a newspaper, type a couple of paragraphs from that. Learn to type capital letters and punctuation marks where ever they are required. Learn to give spaces at right places. Remember, in most cases, no space is given before a punctuation mark, but spaces are given after the punctuation mark. 

Focus at this Level: Typing, Formatting text, Using MS Word

If you have no experience in using a computer or Microsoft (MS) Office, I suggest that you do a computer course from a near by computer institute. Generally, such institutes teach well. Remember, it is all about practising on the computer. Try to learn everything about MS Word. Try to get a lot of typing and formatting practise in MS word. MS Word is much more useful than Excel or Powerpoint, that is why I give higher importance to MS Word and lesser to Excel and PowerPoint.

What are MS Word, MS Excel and MS Powerpoint?

"MS" stands for "Microsoft". These three are among the most popular software on Earth, especially MS Word. They do all kinds of things, and most people who use computer are familiar with this Software. This is one of the First software taught to kids in School. Using this software you can type document, print documents, create Posters, create notes on the computer, share information with others, create reports, create case studies, and all kinds of office work. From CEOs to junior employees, everyone uses this software in a typical company. In short, it is all about typing things on computer and creating a document. 

MS Excel is more specific. They are more frequently used for financial records and infact all kinds of record keeping. 

MS Powerpoint is primarily used for giving presentations.

You will understand what MS Excel and MS Powerpoint are, once you start using them. MS Word is absolute must to starting learning basic use of a computer, because it teaches you the most basic things like typing alphabets, punctuation marks and basic use of the keys on the keyboard. Once you know typing, you can use your typing skill in typing in emails, or typing in different boxes on various websites, typing website URLs, typing on facebook, infact typing is used everywhere on the computer. MS Word also teaches you formatting text (bolding, decreasing and increasing font sizes, giving and reducing space in text, etc). Formating skills are used everywhere - emails, social media and on so many other websites. And there are other alternatives of MS word, the most popular is Google Docs. It works on the Browser (like Google Chrome). Google Docs is a free but a really good alternative to MS word. Google Docs is very similar to MS word. Once you are fluent with MS word, you can easily get fluent with the MS Word equivalent in Google Docs or any other alternative. So you see, just by learning MS Word, you get fluent in using many other Software, Websites, and Webapps. Similarly, using MS Excel and Powerpoint also gives you a overall idea of how things work on computer in today's age. For example, if you know excel, you also understand many aspects of how a popular webapp named "Notion" works. You will also get a better understanding of how records are stored in a typical Database. 

MS Word, MS Excel, and MS Powerpoint, when combined together, they are called "MS Office".

Therefore, I think getting started with MS Office is the best way to get acquainted with a Computer and it's basic use.

Topics to cover:
Using Microsoft Word
Typing practise and know what each key on the keyboard is for

Learn through Projects
Whether you go to any institute or not, try to do the below projects by yourself. That would teach you the above mentioned topics through hands-on practise. Take help from tech-savvy family members and friends.

Projects:

• Learn to create heading  for the page. Try changing text color and bold some text. Change text sizes as per requirement.

• Create resume for yourself or for one of your family members

Focus at this level: Internet Browsing, Get into habit of using websites, Google Search, Using ChatGPT, Emails, Common webapps - notion, etc.

Focus: Deeper study of Google Search, understanding AI generated and sponsored results, understanding social media advertisements, Using facebook, Pages vs groups, Deeper study of AI tools - ChatGPT, etc.

Learn HTML and CSS from W3Schools.com and do some projects.

Projects:
Please create these projects with HTML/CSS, not with any other website creation methods. Also, please note that at this stage it is very unlikely that you will be able to create a fully finished website that you will be able to actually use.
- Build a personal website
- Build a website for a friend or family
- Build a website for an imaginary business idea
- Build a website for your pet
- Build a recipe-sharing website
- Build a family website
- Travel Journal: A platform to document trips with photos, locations, and notes.
- Movie Review Site: Let users review and rate movies with a search bar and a trending section.

These websites need to work both on mobile and laptop/desktop. So, you will need to use media queries and responsive design.

You are unlikely to do Web Development in SoM. But if you have experience in HTML/CSS, you will be better able to understand Web development work in SoM.

Once you understand HTML/CSS, you are better able to understand all the platforms that are used these days to develop websites.

Learn Python or Javascript. Prefer Python because it is easier as the first programming language. But SoM is more likely to work with Javascript. Just learn one programming language and others are quite similar.

You are unlikely to do programming in SoM. Those who are doing programming since a few years, they will probably do programming. But if you have experience in programming, you will be able to better communicate with the Software Developers working in SoM.