Course introduction to IT for the humanities (not programming)?

Question

Operating Systems

Which courses/books are worth checking out (free)?
There is a need to pull up a person in using a computer, so much so that he would not turn to me on every issue.
From the last examples: the instructions say save the file in notepad with the name test.bat, as you know, Windows hides extensions by default, as a result, test.bat.txt turned out and stuff like that. those. Basics.
I am ready to help, but I understand that I won’t be able to cover everything, I’ll forget about something, and if the student doesn’t know the principles, he won’t even understand what to google.
I came across courses "computer for beginners", etc. but I don’t see the point in learning Excel and Word, and nothing is revealed more deeply there.

Answer 1

Which courses/books are worth checking out (free)?

It is worth noting that books are not free. Unless you plan on stealing them of course.
Using a computer is a very vague thing. I think you need to drive in the search pattern "{operating system name} for dummies"
It's not the basics, which is why vin hides file extensions, since it's not needed by the average user. Obviously not a complete instruction, since the user should not know such details.
then maybe outline the range of tasks that your user will face? I don't even know what you mean? Copying files or command line?

Answer 2

Using .bat files and even more so writing them is not the basics, this is already an advanced user.
Therefore, a course that can cover everything that is useful to an advanced user does not exist.
There are too many different moments, nuances ...
Teach him to google first.

Answer 3

Books from the series "Windows for Dummies" (if there is Windows) or "Linux for Dummies" (if there is Linux)

Answer 4

If I were you, I would still make a list myself and figure out things that your employee could encounter.
- books, courses, etc. will still not cover all the necessary material
- The volume of books or courses can be very large and does not guarantee that a person will remember and be able to apply all the material. Would you be able to? Imagine some course on the use of all types of electrical and radio engineering) After all, just use, do not program, do not solder and do not make circuits))
Something like that ... IMHO. Therefore, be patient and if you don’t want to say goodbye to him - invest a little time or suggest Google without psychos. Maybe he'll get used to it.