Description

Features

• Prepares students to adapt to an ever-changing computing environment through lifelong learning by focusing on three different types of content: Skills, Concepts, and Capabilities.

• Contains both in-chapter and end-of-chapter features including: FIT: Bytes, Tips, Cautions, Links and Try it (in-chapter exercises), along with Great FIT Moments and end-of-chapter Multiple Choice and Short Answer exercises.

• Skills: refers to proficiency with contemporary computer applications like email, word processing, Web searching, etc. Skills make the technology immediately useful to students and ground their learning of other content in practical experience.

• Concepts: refers to the fundamental knowledge underpinning IT, such as how computers work, digital representation of information, assessing information authenticity, etc. Concepts provide the principles on which students will build new understanding as IT evolves.

• Capabilities: refers to higher-level thinking processes such as problem-solving, reasoning, complexity management, trouble-shooting, etc. Capabilities embody modes of thinking that are essential to exploiting IT, but they apply in many other situations as well. The Capabilities component is a standard element of all education, and is essential to the effective use of IT, making it an explicit focus of this book.

• Extensive supplements package including a computer skills lab workbook which contains fourteen labs that go step-by-step through the basics of Microsoft® Office, Windows®, email, Web browsing, debugging and image editing and an online solutions manual and computerized test bank for instructors.

• Written by the chairman of the National Research Council's report, “Being Fluent with Information Technology.”

New To This Edition

• NEW CHAPTER-Coverage of spreadsheet principles and the simplified operations to building a spreadsheet.  Includes examples from Excel, AppleWorks, and OpenOffice.
• ALL NEW Material on how to use the latest operating systems including examples from MacX and Windows XP systems.  
• NEW Debugging example! Students learn how to debug an HTML page.
• UPDATED Google coverage including material on page ranking and effective web searches.
• CURRENT Material on Web Security topics including discussion of the Phishing Fraud.
• UPDATED Coverage on spam email and the social impact.

Table of Contents

I. 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: A Case Study in Online Research

II. 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 Organization

10. What's the Plan? Algorithmic Thinking

11. Sound, Light and Magic: Representing Multimedia Digitally

III. DATA AND INFORMATION

12. Computers in Polite Society: Social Implications of IT

13. Fill in the Blank Computing: Basics of Spreadsheets

14. Getting to First Base: Introduction to Database Concepts

15. A Table with a View: Database Queries

16. HAI! Adventure Database: Case Study in Database Design

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

IV. PROBLEM SOLVING

18. Get with the Program: Fundamental Concepts Expressed as JavaScript

19. The Bean Counter: A JavaScript Program

20. Thinking Big: Abstraction and 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. Commencement: A Fluency Summary

Appendix A: HTML Reference

Appendix B: JavaScript Programming Rules

Appendix C: Bean Counter Program

Appendix D: Memory Bank Program

Appendix E: Smooth Motion Program

Glossary

Answers to Selected Questions

Index

Courses

Introduction to Computer Science (CS0)  (Computer Science)

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• Fluency with Information Technology: Skills, Concepts, and Capabilities, 5/E
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Author Bios

Larry Snyder was the chairman of the National Research Council's (NRC) committee that issued the report, "Being Fluent with Information Technology." It is this NRC committee, funded by the National Science Foundation, that identified the three types of knowledge needed in Fluency. Larry received his BA in 1968 from the University of Iowa and his Ph.D. in 1973 at Carnegie Mellon. Since then he has taught at schools like Yale, MIT, Harvard, and Syndey University before settling down in 1983 at the University of Washington.

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