Résumé
This book personalizes the reader's learning experiences by
relating a term or concept to their personal life using a
manner that is consistent with everyday conversation. The
new edition has been largely rewritten to strike a good
balance between efficiency of presentation and content that
holds the reader's interest and invites learning. Only
concepts critical to general information technology (IT)
competency are covered in order to provide the breath of
topics necessary to the understanding that is applicable
today and in the future.
Information Technology in Perspective, Using the PC: Popular Productivity Software, Inside the Computer, Storing and Retrieving Information, Information Input and Output, Networks and Networking, Going Online, The Windows Environment, PC Software For the every Application, Computers in Society: Today, Computers in Society: Tomorrow, Information Systems, Developing Business Information Systems.
Table of contents
Glossary.
Index.
Information Technology in Perspective, Using the PC: Popular Productivity Software, Inside the Computer, Storing and Retrieving Information, Information Input and Output, Networks and Networking, Going Online, The Windows Environment, PC Software For the every Application, Computers in Society: Today, Computers in Society: Tomorrow, Information Systems, Developing Business Information Systems.
Table of contents
I. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CONCEPTS.
1. Information Technology in Perspective.- The Information Society.
- Networking: Bringing People Together.
- Computers: The Essentials.
- Personal Computers to Supercomputers.
- A Computer System at Work.
- How Do We Use Computers?
- Personal Computing With Popular Productivity Packages.
- Word Processing: The Most Popular PC Application.
- Desktop Publishing: Freedom of the Press.
- Presentation Software: Putting On the Show.
- Spreadsheet: The Magic Matrix.
- Database: A Dynamic Data Tool.
- Going Digital.
- The PC System Unit: Looking in the Box.
- Describing the Processor.
- Processor Design.
- Mass Storage and Files.
- Magnetic Disks. Backup: Better Safe than Sorry.
- Optical Laser Disks: High-Density Storage.
- Storage Forecast: Is There a Disk in Your Future?
- I/O Devices: Let's Interface.
- Traditional Input Devices.
- Source-Data Automation.
- Output Devices.
- Terminals: Input and Output.
- Our Weird, Wild, Wired World.
- Data Communications Hardware: Making It Happen.
- The Data Communications Channel: Data Highways.
- Networks: Connecting Nodes.
- Networks: The WAN, MAN, LAN, and TAN.
- The Online World.
- Information Services: America Online,CompuServe, and More.
- The Internet: A Worldwide Web of Computers and Information.
- Browsers: The Information Tool.
- Internet Resources and Applications.
- Internet Issues.
- The Operating System: Directing the Action.
- Platforms: Homes for Software.
- Windows Concepts and Terminology.
- Sharing Information Among Windows Applications.
- Interacting With the PC and its Software.
II. LIVING IN AN INFORMATION SOCIETY.
9. PC Software for Every Application.- Graphics and Multimedia Software.
- Personal Information Management Software.
- Home and Family Software.
- Education and Edutainment Software.
- Reference Software.
- Business and Management Software.
- Utility Software.
- The Information Technology Paradox.
- Working in the Information Society.
- The Work Place: Ergonomics and Green Computing.
- The Question of Ethics.
- Computer, Internet, and System Security.
- The Virtual Frontier.
- The Wake Up Call.
- Artificial Intelligence.
- Down the Road: The Information Superhighway.
- Your Challenge.
III. BUSINESS INFORMATION SYSTEMS.
12. Information Systems.- An End to Business As Usual.
- Information and Decision Making.
- All About Information Systems.
- Data Processing Systems.
- Management Information Systems.
- Decision Support Systems.
- Expert Systems.
- Intelligent Agents: Working For Us.
- The System Life Cycle.
- System Development Techniques and Concepts.
- Computer-Aided Software Engineering: The Case Tool Kit.
- Prototyping: Creating a Model of the Target System.
- System Conversion and Implementation: Making the Transition.
- Programming: Making it Happen.
Glossary.
Index.
Caractéristiques techniques
| PAPIER | |
| Éditeur(s) | Prentice Hall |
| Auteur(s) | Larry Long, Nancy Long |
| Parution | 15/08/1999 |
| Édition | 7eme édition |
| Nb. de pages | 450 |
| Format | 21 x 27,5 |
| Poids | 1000g |
| EAN13 | 9780130831903 |
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