Fluency with IT: Skills, Concepts, & Capabilities

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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.

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The Fluency with IT: Skills, Concepts, and Capabilities course is targeted at students who are already familiar with computers, the Internet, and the World Wide Web and have a deeper understanding of the broad capabilities of technology.

The computer fluency course covers topics such as information technology, human-computer interfaces, 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.

 

Lesson 1: Defining Information Technology

  • Computation's Greatest Hits

  • Terms of Endearment

  • Computers, Software, and Algorithms

  • The Words for Ideas

  • Summary

  • Short Answers

  • Exercises

 

Lesson 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

 

Lesson 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

 

Lesson 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

  • A Privacy Definition

  • Enjoying the Benefits of Privacy

  • Fair Information Practices

  • Is There No Privacy?

  • Tracking

  • Cookies

  • Digital Security

  • Prevention

  • Encryption

  • Redundancy Is Very, Very, Very Good

  • Summary

  • Short Answer

  • Exercises

 

Lessons 13: The Basics of Spreadsheets

  • Arranging Information

  • Computing with Spreadsheets

  • Daily Spreadsheets

  • Importing Data

  • Summary

  • Short Answer

  • Exercise

 

Lessons 14: Advanced Spreadsheets for Planning

  • Designing a Spreadsheet

  • Conditional Formatting

  • Conditional Formulas

  • Naming: Symbolic Reference

  • What-If Analysis

  • Analyzing Data Using Filtering

  • Summary

  • Short Answer

  • Exercises

 

Lesson 15: Introduction to Database Concepts

  • Differences Between Tables and Databases

  • XML: A Language for Metadata Tags

  • Tables and Entities

  • The Science of Tables

  • SQL: The Language of Databases

  • Structure of a Database

  • Summary

  • Short Answer

  • Exercises

 

Lesson 16: A Case Study in Database Organization

  • Thinking About a Personal Database

  • A Preliminary Exercise

  • The iDiary Database

  • Using the iDiary Daily

  • Summary

  • Short Answer

  • Exercises

 

Lesson 17: Fundamental Concepts Expressed in JavaScript

  • Overview: Programming Concepts

  • Names, Values, and Variables

  • Three Basic Data Types of JavaScript

  • The Assignment Statement

  • Lab Practice

  • An Expression and Its Syntax

  • A Conditional Statement

  • The Espresso Program

  • Summary

  • Short Answer

  • Exercises

 

Lessons 18: A JavaScript Program

  • Preliminaries

  • Background for the UI

  • Creating the Graphical User Interface

  • Event-Based Programming

  • Critiquing the Bean Counter

  • Bean Counter Recap

  • Summary

  • Short Answer

  • Exercises

 

Lesson 19: Programming Functions

  • Anatomy of a Function

  • Forms and Functions

  • Writing Functions, Using Functions

  • Customizing Pages

  • Making a Web-Based Phone App

  • Social Functions

  • Summary

  • Short Answer

  • Exercises

 

Lesson 20: Iteration Principles

  • Iteration: Play It Again, Sam

  • JavaScript Rules for for Loops

  • Experiments with Flipping Coins

  • Indexing

  • Arrays

  • It's Magic

  • The Busy Animation

  • Not So Busy Animation

  • Summary

  • Short Answer

  • Exercises

 

Lessons 21: A Case Study in Algorithmic Problem Solving

  • The Smooth Motion Application

  • Planning Smooth Motion

  • Build the Basic Web Page UI

  • Animate the Grid

  • The Best Laid Plans...

  • Build Controls

  • Sense the Keys

  • Staircase Detection

  • Assemble the overall design.

  • Primp the Design

  • Summary

  • Short Answer

  • Exercises

 

Lesson 22: Limits to Computation

  • Can computers think?

  • Acting Intelligently?

  • Watson

  • Acting Creatively?

  • The Universality Principle

  • More Work, Slower Speed

  • Are the best algorithms all fast?

  • Summary

  • Short Answer

  • Exercises

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