Overview

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. Through a project-oriented learning approach that uses examples and realistic problem-solving scenarios, Larry Snyder teaches readers to navigate information technology independently and become effective users of today’s resources, forming a foundation of skills they can adapt to their personal and career goals as future technologies emerge.

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Author:   Lawrence Snyder
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Pearson
Edition:   3rd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 25.40cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   1.348kg
ISBN:  

9780321512390

ISBN 10:   0321512391
Pages:   784
Publication Date:   22 November 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Replaced By:   9780135125649
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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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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"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. He taught at schools such as Yale, MIT, Harvard, and Syndey University before settling down at the University of Washington in 1983, where he is currently a professor of computer science and engineering."

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