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.
- Price: $159.99
- Delivery Method: eLearning
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Test Prep
100+ Pre Assessment Questions |
2+ Full Length Tests |
100+ Post Assessment Questions |
110+ Practice Test Questions
Features
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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