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Fluency with Information Technology: Skills, Concepts, and Capabilities (4th Edition) |  | Author: Lawrence Snyder
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 4
Pages: 816
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Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 7.9 x 1.2
ISBN: 0136091822
Dewey Decimal Number: 004
EAN: 9780136091820
ASIN: 0136091822
Publication Date: February 21, 2010
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Fluency with Information Technology: Skills, Concepts, and Capabilities, Fourth 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 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.
For readers interested in computers, the Internet, the World Wide Web, and a deeper understanding of technology.
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 broad scope across all of IT September 23, 2005
W Boudville (Terra, Sol 3)
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
The scope of Snyder's book is ambitious. It offers a grand sweep of teaching the basics of information technology. To a reader that will not major in this field. In other words, if this is a required text for one of your courses, then it may well be the last text in IT that some of you will ever use. Realistically, you will probably in later years have computer books, about whatever new hardware or software comes up. But those will usually be books far narrower in scope.
So there is a big responsibility here. Luckily, Snyder carries it off well. This is not a book about how to turn on your PC or Mac, or how to navigate in a windowing system. He reasonably assumes that you've already learnt this by now. This frees him to discuss higher level topics. Like just what is the World Wide Web? What are the implications of a pervasive global network of computers? Whose reach is expanding daily. Naturally, pretty early in the text, we meet the Web. An entire chapter is devoted to HTML, due to its universal importance. This chapter is fairly low level detail. Most of you won't write HTML.
Later on are perhaps broader topics. Like how to find information on the Web. This is more than just blithely typing a query into Google. He warns that there is far more to effective searching than that. You need to develop some feeling for which websites and other information sources are reliable.
If you thought HTML is low level, he goes deeper. In simple terms, he tries to explain the innards of a computer. To demystify what must surely be inexplicable to some. He also does this with algorithms.
Social issues are also extensively dealt with. The privacy you might have in an electronic world, and how this might come under attack through viruses and other malware. Or even by phishing. It is a good sign of the updated nature of this text that he gives an explanation of this recent scourge. And how you might avoid it. Though the suggestions he offers are all manual, and not programmatic. Which still exposes the unwary to phishing. But in this year 2005, that is indeed the state of the art in antiphishing.
Great Book! September 28, 2009
P. Matson
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Came in excellent condition for a used book and provides basically everything I have needed for the class. It also came very quickly.
its brand new :) i like it. October 21, 2009
Jianne S. Lo (seattle)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
its cheap and its brand new.
i really like it and i would definitely buy other stuff from this buyer :)
good condition October 26, 2009
Nan Chen (LA, USA)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I like it, the condition is new, and it saved my money from buying it through the bookstore.
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Gary R. Spiewak
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Book was in OK condition (some answers were filled in); content was as expected. Price was better than the school bookstore would have charged. Delivery was convenient and on time.
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