Understanding Computers: Today and Tomorrow, 2002 Edition

by Morley, Deborah; Parker, Charles S.

• ISBN13: 9780030334368
• ISBN10: 0030334365
• Edition: 9th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-14
• Publisher: Cengage Learning Ptr

Summary

Offers a comprehensive and current approach to computer concepts with a dynamic new web presence. Softcover.

Table of Contents

Preface
MODULE Introduction	1	(80)
Introduction to the World of Computers	3	(34)
Using Your PC, Windows, and the Web	37	(44)
MODULE Hardware	81	(128)
The System Unit: Processing and Memory	83	(46)
Storage	129	(38)
Input and Output	167	(42)
MODULE Software	209	(86)
Systems Software	211	(40)
Application Software	251	(44)
MODULE Networks	295	(98)
Communications and Networks	298	(47)
The Internet and World Wide Web	345	(48)
MODULE Internet Applications	393	(82)
Multimedia and the Web	395	(42)
E-Business and E-Commerce	437	(38)
MODULE Systems	475	(128)
Information Systems and Systems Development	477	(40)
Program Development and Programming Languages	517	(48)
Databases and Database Management Systems	565	(38)
MODULE Computers In Our Lives	603
Ethics, Computer Crime, Privacy, and Other Social Issues	605
You and Your PC	643
Appendix	A-1
Quiz Answers	Q-1
Credits	C-1
Glossary	G-1
Index	I-1