Fluency with Information Technology : Skills, Concepts, and Capabilities

by Snyder, Lawrence

• ISBN13: 9780321512390
• ISBN10: 0321512391
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

KEY MESSAGE:Fluency with Information Technology: Skills, Concepts, and Capabilities, Third Edition,equips readers who are already familiar with computers, the Internet, and the World Wide Web with a deeper understanding of the broad capabilities of technology. Becoming Skilled at Information Technology: Terms of Endearment: Defining Information Technology; What the Digerati Know: Exploring the HumanComputer Interface; Making the Connection: The Basics of Networking; Marking Up with HTML: A Hypertext Markup Language Primer; Searching for Truth: Locating Information on the WWW; Searching for Guinea Pig B: Case Study in Online Research.Algorithms and Digitizing Information:To Err Is Human: An Introduction to Debugging; Bits and the "Why" of Bytes: Representing Information Digitally; Following Instructions: Principles of Computer Operation; What's the Plan? Algorithmic Thinking; Light, Sound, Magic: Representing Multimedia Digitally.Problem Solving:Get with the Program: Fundamental Concepts Expressed in JavaScript; The Bean Counter: A JavaScript Program; Thinking Big: Programming Functions; Once Is Not Enough: Iteration Principles; The Smooth Motion: Case Study in Algorithmic Problem Solving; Computers Can Do Almost {Everything, Nothing}: Limits to Computation; A Fluency Summary: Click to Close. For all readers interested in computers, the Internet, the World Wide Web, and a deeper understanding of the broad capabilities of technology.

Table of Contents

Becoming Skilled At Information Technology

Terms of Endearment: Defining Information Technology

What the Digerati Know: Exploring the Human-Computer Interface

Making the Connection: The Basics of Networking

Marking Up with HTML: A Hypertext Markup Language Primer

Searching for Truth: Locating Information on the WWW

Searching for Guinea Pig B: Case Study in Online Research

Algorithms And Digitizing Information

To Err Is Human: An Introduction to Debugging

Bits and the "Why" of Bytes: Representing Information Digitally

Following Instructions: Principles of Computer Operation

What's the Plan? Algorithmic Thinking

Light, Sound, Magic: Representing Multimedia Digitally

Data And Information

Computers in Polite Society: Social Implications of IT

Shhh, It's a Secret: Privacy and Digital Security

Fill-in-the-Blank Computing: Basics of Spreadsheets

'What If' Thinking Helps: Advanced Spreadsheets for Planning

A Table with a View: Database Queries

iDiary: A Case Study in Database Design

Problem Solving

Get with the Program: Fundamental Concepts Expressed in JavaScript

The Bean Counter: A JavaScript Program

Thinking Big: Programming Functions

Once Is Not Enough: Iteration Principles

The Smooth Motion: Case Study in Algorithmic Problem Solving

Computers Can Do Almost {Everything, Nothing}: Limits to Computation

A Fluency Summary: Click to Close

Appendixes

HTML Reference

iDiary Database

JavaScript Programming Rules

Bean Counter Program

Memory Bank Program

Smooth Motion Program

Glossary

Answers to Selected Questions

Index

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