Fluency with information technology: skills, concepts, and capabilities. /
Lawrence Snyder
- 4th ed.
- London: Addison-Wesley, 2011.
- xviii, 795 p.: ill.;
Includes index
Contents: Defining information technology -- Exploring the human-computer interface -- The basics of networking -- AS hypertext markup language primer -- Locating information on the WWW -- A case study in online research -- An introduction to debugging -- Representing information digitally -- Principles of computer operations -- Algorithmic thinking -- Representing multimedia digitally -- Social implications of IT -- Privacy and digital security -- The basics of spreadsheets -- Advanced spreadsheets for planning -- Introduction to database concepts -- A case study in database organization -- Fundamental concepts expressed in JavaScript -- A Java Script program -- Programming functions -- Iteration principles -- A case study in algorithmic problem solving -- Limits to computation -- A fluency summary -- Appendices: XHTML reference -- iDiary: tags and templates -- JavaScript programming rules -- Bean counter program -- Memory bank code -- Smooth motion program --