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What You'll Find Inside
Computers: Understanding Technology, Third Edition provides comprehensive coverage of computer concepts from the basic to the advanced level. With three levels of the textbook to choose from, instructors are sure to find the right topic listings to meet their course needs. Challenging end-of-chapter exercises move students from simple recall to advanced thinking and analysis of IT issues. To address all types of learning styles in the classroom, each textbook is packaged with our proven Encore multimedia CD! Computers: Understanding Technology, Third Edition can be used as a stand-alone textbook or can be packaged with our Marquee or Benchmark Series Office application textbooks!
- Provides comprehensive, highly accessible coverage of major IT topics including corporate ethics, break-through technology and IT trends
- Offers a wide variety of chapter exercises featuring discussions, Internet research, futuristic thinking, and writing
- Available with Microsoft Office 2007 tutorials on CD
Packaged with the comprehensive, multimedia Encore CD
- Flash animations and videos teach key technology concepts
- Interactive practice and reportable quizzes
- Glossary terms and definitions in Spanish and English
Contents
1. Our Digital World. Tech Insight: History of Computers Timeline. 2. Input and Processing. 3. Output and Storage. Tech Insight: Buying and Installing a PC. 4. System Software. 5. Application Software. Tech Insight: Adding Software and Hardware Components to Your PC. 6. Telecommunications and Networks. 7. The Internet and the World Wide Web. Tech Insight: Working with PDF Files.
8. Security Issues and Strategies. 9. Databases and Information Management. Tech Insight: Bioinformatics. 10. Information Systems. 11. Electronic Commerce. 12. Programming Concepts and Languages. Tech Insight: Using XML to Share Information.
13. Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence. 14. Computer Ethics.
15. Information Technology Careers. Appendix: Troubleshooting Your PC. Windows Tutorials. Internet Tutorials. Glossary. Index.
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