Home > Computing and Information Technology > Fluency with Information Technology: Skills, Concepts, and Capabilities
3%
Fluency with Information Technology: Skills, Concepts, and Capabilities

Fluency with Information Technology: Skills, Concepts, and Capabilities

          
5
4
3
2
1

Out of Stock


Premium quality
Premium quality
Bookswagon upholds the quality by delivering untarnished books. Quality, services and satisfaction are everything for us!
Easy Return
Easy return
Not satisfied with this product! Keep it in original condition and packaging to avail easy return policy.
Certified product
Certified product
First impression is the last impression! Address the book’s certification page, ISBN, publisher’s name, copyright page and print quality.
Secure Checkout
Secure checkout
Security at its finest! Login, browse, purchase and pay, every step is safe and secured.
Money back guarantee
Money-back guarantee:
It’s all about customers! For any kind of bad experience with the product, get your actual amount back after returning the product.
On time delivery
On-time delivery
At your doorstep on time! Get this book delivered without any delay.
Notify me when this book is in stock
Add to Wishlist

About the Book

To meet the demands of today's world and to adapt to future technology advancements, individuals must use technology as a tool for organization, communication, research, and problem solving.  To help students become effective users of today's technology and place them on the path of lifelong learning.  Fluency covers three types of knowledge: Skills, Concepts, and Capabilities.  Skills consists of competence with contemporary computer applications; Concepts are the fundamental principles upon which information technology is founded, including basics ideas relating to information, computers, databases, and networks; Capabilities is the ability to apply reasoning in complex situations, which allows students to master higher-level thinking in the context of information technology.  Larry Snyder covers this foundation of learning by integrating a project-oriented learning approach through examples and real-life problem solving.   Read what professionals, college students, and professors have to say about the importance of technology knowledge in a recent New York Times (nytimes.com) article, http://nytimes.com/2005/08/23/technology/23geeks.html?pagewanted=print. Article: A Techie, Absolutely, and More By: Steve Lohr Date: August 23rd, 2005 Business Section

Table of Contents:
I.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: A Case Study in Online Research           II. 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 Organization 10. What's the Plan? Algorithmic Thinking 11. Sound, Light and Magic: Representing Multimedia Digitally   III. DATA AND INFORMATION 12. Computers in Polite Society: Social Implications of IT 13. Fill in the Blank Computing: Basics of Spreadsheets 14. Getting to First Base: Introduction to Database Concepts 15. A Table with a View: Database Queries 16. HAI! Adventure Database: Case Study in Database Design 17. Shhh, It's a Secret: Privacy and Digital Security   IV. PROBLEM SOLVING   18. Get with the Program: Fundamental Concepts Expressed as JavaScript 19. The Bean Counter: A JavaScript Program 20. Thinking Big: Abstraction and 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. Commencement: A Fluency Summary             Appendix A: HTML Reference Appendix B: JavaScript Programming Rules Appendix C: Bean Counter Program Appendix D: Memory Bank Program Appendix E: Smooth Motion Program Glossary Answers to Selected Questions Index


Best Sellers


Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780321357823
  • Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
  • Publisher Imprint: Pearson
  • Edition: 2 Rev ed
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Skills, Concepts, and Capabilities
  • Width: 201 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0321357825
  • Publisher Date: 22 Aug 2005
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 256 mm
  • No of Pages: 784
  • Spine Width: 24 mm
  • Weight: 1282 gr


Similar Products

How would you rate your experience shopping for books on Bookswagon?

Add Photo
Add Photo

Customer Reviews

REVIEWS           
Click Here To Be The First to Review this Product
Fluency with Information Technology: Skills, Concepts, and Capabilities
Pearson Education (US) -
Fluency with Information Technology: Skills, Concepts, and Capabilities
Writing guidlines
We want to publish your review, so please:
  • keep your review on the product. Review's that defame author's character will be rejected.
  • Keep your review focused on the product.
  • Avoid writing about customer service. contact us instead if you have issue requiring immediate attention.
  • Refrain from mentioning competitors or the specific price you paid for the product.
  • Do not include any personally identifiable information, such as full names.

Fluency with Information Technology: Skills, Concepts, and Capabilities

Required fields are marked with *

Review Title*
Review
    Add Photo Add up to 6 photos
    Would you recommend this product to a friend?
    Tag this Book
    Read more
    Does your review contain spoilers?
    What type of reader best describes you?
    I agree to the terms & conditions
    You may receive emails regarding this submission. Any emails will include the ability to opt-out of future communications.

    CUSTOMER RATINGS AND REVIEWS AND QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS TERMS OF USE

    These Terms of Use govern your conduct associated with the Customer Ratings and Reviews and/or Questions and Answers service offered by Bookswagon (the "CRR Service").


    By submitting any content to Bookswagon, you guarantee that:
    • You are the sole author and owner of the intellectual property rights in the content;
    • All "moral rights" that you may have in such content have been voluntarily waived by you;
    • All content that you post is accurate;
    • You are at least 13 years old;
    • Use of the content you supply does not violate these Terms of Use and will not cause injury to any person or entity.
    You further agree that you may not submit any content:
    • That is known by you to be false, inaccurate or misleading;
    • That infringes any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy;
    • That violates any law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including, but not limited to, those governing, consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising);
    • That is, or may reasonably be considered to be, defamatory, libelous, hateful, racially or religiously biased or offensive, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing to any individual, partnership or corporation;
    • For which you were compensated or granted any consideration by any unapproved third party;
    • That includes any information that references other websites, addresses, email addresses, contact information or phone numbers;
    • That contains any computer viruses, worms or other potentially damaging computer programs or files.
    You agree to indemnify and hold Bookswagon (and its officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures, employees and third-party service providers, including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc.), harmless from all claims, demands, and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of a breach of your representations and warranties set forth above, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.


    For any content that you submit, you grant Bookswagon a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable right and license to use, copy, modify, delete in its entirety, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from and/or sell, transfer, and/or distribute such content and/or incorporate such content into any form, medium or technology throughout the world without compensation to you. Additionally,  Bookswagon may transfer or share any personal information that you submit with its third-party service providers, including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc. in accordance with  Privacy Policy


    All content that you submit may be used at Bookswagon's sole discretion. Bookswagon reserves the right to change, condense, withhold publication, remove or delete any content on Bookswagon's website that Bookswagon deems, in its sole discretion, to violate the content guidelines or any other provision of these Terms of Use.  Bookswagon does not guarantee that you will have any recourse through Bookswagon to edit or delete any content you have submitted. Ratings and written comments are generally posted within two to four business days. However, Bookswagon reserves the right to remove or to refuse to post any submission to the extent authorized by law. You acknowledge that you, not Bookswagon, are responsible for the contents of your submission. None of the content that you submit shall be subject to any obligation of confidence on the part of Bookswagon, its agents, subsidiaries, affiliates, partners or third party service providers (including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc.)and their respective directors, officers and employees.

    Accept

    New Arrivals


    Inspired by your browsing history


    Your review has been submitted!

    You've already reviewed this product!
    ASK VIDYA