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Fluency with Information Technology: Skills, Concepts, and Capabilities, 3rd Edition

By Lawrence Snyder

ISBN-10: 0-321-51239-1

ISBN-13: 978-0-321-51239-0What's this?

Published by Prentice Hall

© 2008

Pub. Date: Oct 12, 2007

Format: Paper

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Table of Contents

Part 1. BECOMING SKILLED AT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
1. Terms of Endearment: Defining Information Technology
2. What the Digerati Know: Exploring the Human–Computer Interface
3. Making the Connection: The Basics of Networking
4. Marking Up with HTML: A Hypertext Markup Language Primer
5. Searching for Truth: Locating Information on the WWW
6. Searching for Guinea Pig B: Case Study in Online Research

Part 2. ALGORITHMS AND DIGITIZING INFORMATION
7. To Err Is Human: An Introduction to Debugging
8. Bits and the "Why" of Bytes: Representing Information Digitally
9. Following Instructions: Principles of Computer Operation
10. What's the Plan? Algorithmic Thinking
11. Light, Sound, Magic: Representing Multimedia Digitally

Part 3. DATA AND INFORMATION
12. Computers in Polite Society: Social Implications of IT
13. Shhh, It's a Secret: Privacy and Digital Security
14. Fill-in-the-Blank Computing: Basics of Spreadsheets
15. ‘What If’ Thinking Helps: Advanced Spreadsheets for Planning
16. A Table with a View: Database Queries
17. iDiary: A Case Study in Database Design

Part 4. PROBLEM SOLVING
18. Get with the Program: Fundamental Concepts Expressed in JavaScript
19. The Bean Counter: A JavaScript Program
20. Thinking Big: Programming Functions
21. Once Is Not Enough: Iteration Principles
22. The Smooth Motion: Case Study in Algorithmic Problem Solving
23. Computers Can Do Almost {Everything, Nothing}: Limits to Computation
24. A Fluency Summary: Click to Close

Appendixes
Appendix A: HTML Reference
Appendix B: iDiary Database
Appendix C: JavaScript Programming Rules
Appendix D: Bean Counter Program
Appendix E: Memory Bank Program
Appendix F: Smooth Motion Program

Glossary
Answers to Selected Questions
Index

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