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Fluency with IT: Skills, Concepts, & Capabilities

The Fluency with IT: Skills, Concepts, & Capabilities course is targeted at students who are already familiar with computers, the Internet, and the World Wide Web with a deeper understanding of the broad capabilities of technology. The computer fluency course covers topics such as information technology, human-computer interface, networking fundamentals, information location on the world wide web, and more. This course teaches computer skills and provides complete coverage of all concepts required for information technology.
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  • Delivery method: eLearning
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100+ Pre Assessment Questions | 2+ Full Length Tests | 100+ Post Assessment Questions | 110+ Practice Test Questions
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Outline

Lessons 1:
Defining Information Technology

  • Computation’s Greatest Hits
  • Terms of Endearment
  • Computers, Software, Algorithms
  • The Words for Ideas
  • Summary
  • Short Answers
  • Exercises

Lessons 2:
Exploring the Human-Computer Interface

  • A Few Useful Concepts
  • Perfect Reproduction
  • What We See and What We Think
  • Summary
  • Short Answers
  • Exercises

Lessons 3:
The Basics of Networking

  • Comparing Communication Types
  • The Medium of the Message
  • The World Wide Web
  • File Structure
  • Summary
  • Short Answers
  • Exercises

Lessons 4:
A Hypertext Markup Language Primer

  • Marking Up with HTML
  • Lab Practice I
  • Structuring Documents
  • Lab Practice II
  • Get Into Style with CSS
  • Marking Links and Images
  • Referring to Files
  • Span, Lists, Tables, and Boxes
  • Cascading Style Sheets
  • Styling with Class
  • Hovering Above Links
  • HTML Wrap–Up
  • Summary
  • Short Answer
  • Exercises

Lessons 5:
Locating Information on the WWW

  • Web Search Fundamentals
  • Advanced Searches
  • Web Searching
  • Authoritative Information
  • Truth or Fiction?
  • Summary
  • Short Answer
  • Exercises

Lessons 6:
An Introduction to Debugging

  • Precision: The High Standards of Computing
  • Debugging: What’s the Problem?
  • A Dialog About Debugging
  • Debugging Recap
  • Fixing HTML Bugs: A Case Study
  • No Printer Output: A Classic Scenario
  • Ensuring the Reliability of Software
  • Community Debugging
  • Summary
  • Short Answers
  • Exercises

Lessons 7:
Representing Information Digitally

  • Digitizing Discrete Information
  • Information Representation
  • Binary and Hex
  • Digitizing Numbers in Binary
  • Digitizing Text
  • UTF-8
  • The Metadata and the OED
  • Summary
  • Short Answer
  • Exercises

Lessons 8:
Representing Multimedia Digitally

  • Digitizing Color
  • Computing on Representations
  • Digitizing Sound
  • Digital Images and Video
  • Optical Character Recognition
  • Multimedia Challenges
  • Bits Are It
  • Summary
  • Short Answers
  • Exercises

Lessons 9:
Principles of Computer Operations

  • There’s an App for That
  • Software Isn’t So Hard
  • Instruction Execution Engine
  • The Program Counter: The PC’s PC
  • Instruction Execution
  • Translation
  • Integrated Circuits
  • How Semiconductor Technology Works
  • Combining the Ideas
  • Summary
  • Short Answer
  • Exercises

Lessons 10:
Algorithmic Thinking

  • Algorithms
  • Algorithms—A Basic Concept
  • A Closer Look
  • Doing the Right Thing
  • Summary
  • Short Answer
  • Exercises

Lessons 11:
Social Implications of IT

  • The Power of the Crowd
  • Out on Good Behavior
  • Expect the Unexpected
  • Creating Good Passwords
  • Spam
  • Scams
  • Protecting Intellectual Property
  • Creative Commons
  • Summary
  • Short Answer
  • Exercises

Lessons 12:
Privacy and Digital Security

  • Privacy and Technology
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