Book: “Cloud Computing in Easy Steps”

Grazed from i-Programmer. Author: Editorial Staff.

Cloud computing is one of those topics we all need to know about. However, this book concentrates on the ‘end user’ aspects of using online data storage rather than anything aimed at business or technical users. While it isn’t aimed at developers, it would be a good introduction to these aspects of the topic for any non-techie users or managers you need to work with.

Like all the Easy Steps titles, it is written in straightforward English, with lots of color illustrations. There are 15 short chapters, each covering an aspect of using the cloud or an app that lets you work with personal or ‘desktop’ level data in the cloud…

The early chapters are aimed mainly at Google apps, looking first at how to create documents online, with coverage of presentations, spreadsheets, charts, forms, drawings and tables as well as traditional word processed documents. Crookes then moves on to Google Drive as an online storage location, before showing how to use Google Calendar to share your schedule online. A chapter on cloud printing is still Google dominated with coverage of Cloud Print, though Apple AirPrint and Printopia are also covered…

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