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Using
Information Technology Intro w/ SimNet Concepts 5/e 2003
By: Sawyer, Stacey
Williams, Brian K.
ISBN: 0072919973
Format: WW BC DB
Pub Date: 2003-04-15
Copyright: 2003
Edition:5
$64.99 USD
Product Line:McGraw-Hill Technology Education |
About the Book
Using Information Technology, 5/e
covers the fundamental computing concepts that are part of the digital
age, including software, hardware, data, people, and procedures. The text
centers on educating today's technology consumer, using themes of ethics,
the Internet, and communications to demonstrate how the changing world
of technology influences our lives and the decisions we make.
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Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY: Mind Tools for Your Future
1.1 Infotech Becomes Commonplace:
Cellphones, E-Mail, the Internet, & the E-World
1.2 The “All-Purpose Machine”: The
Varieties of Computers
1.3 Understanding Your Computer: What
If You Custom-Ordered Your Own PC?
1.4 Where Is Information Technology
Headed?
CHAPTER 2. THE INTERNET & THE
WORLD WIDE WEB: Exploring Cyberspace
2.1 Choosing Your Internet Access
Device & Physical Connection: The Quest for Broadband?
2.2 Choosing Your Internet Service
Provider (ISP)
2.3 Sending & Receiving E-Mail
2.4 The World Wide Web
2.5 The Online Gold Mine: More Internet
Resources, Your Personal Cyberspace, E-Commerce, & the E-conomy
CHAPTER 3. SOFTWARE: The Power
behind the Power
3.1 System Software
3.2 Application Software: Getting
Started
3.3 Word Processing
3.4 Spreadsheets
3.5 Database Software
3.6 Specialty Software
3.7 Online Software & Application
Software Providers: Turning Point for the Software Industry?
CHAPTER 4. HARDWARE THE CPU &
STORAGE: How to Buy a Multimedia Computer System
4.1 Microchips, Miniaturization, &
Mobility
4.2 The System Unit
4.3 Secondary Storage?
CHAPTER 5. HARDWARE—INPUT &
OUTPUT: Taking Charge of Computing & Communications
5.1 Input & Output
5.2 Input Hardware
5.3 Output Hardware
CHAPTER 6. TELECOMMUNICATIONS:
Networks & Communications—The “New Story” in Computing
6.1 From the Analog to the Digital
Age
6.2 The Practical Uses of Communications
6.3 Communications Channels: The Conduits
of Communications
6.4 Networks
6.5 Cyberethics: Controversial Material,
Privacy, & Intellectual Property
CHAPTER 7. E-COMMERCE, FILES, &
DATABASES: Digital Engines for the New Economy
7.1 Managing Files: Basic Concepts
7.2 Database Management Systems
7.3 Database Models
7.4 Databases & the New Economy:
E-Commerce, Data Mining, & B2B Systems
7.5 The Ethics of Using Storage &
Databases: Concerns about Accuracy & Privacy
CHAPTER 8. SOCIETY & THE DIGITAL
AGE
8.1 The Digital Environment: Is There
a Grand Design?
8.2 Security Issues: Threats to Computers
& Communications Systems
8.3 Security: Safeguarding Computers
& Communications
8.4 Quality-of-Life Issues: The Environment,
Mental Health, & the Workplace?
8.5 Economic Issues: Employment &
the Haves/Have-Nots?
8.6 Artificial Intelligence?
8.7 The Promised Benefits of the Digital
Age?
APPENDIX. SYSTEMS & PROGRAMMING:
Development, Programming & Languages
A.1 Systems Development: The Six Phases
of Systems Analysis & Design |
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