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The Essential Guide to Computing: The Story of Information Technology
Contributor(s): Walters, E. Garrison (Author)
ISBN: 0130194697     ISBN-13: 9780130194695
Publisher: Pearson
OUR PRICE:   $38.24  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: August 2000
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  • The complete, easy-to-understand guide to IT-- now and in the future!
  • Computers, networks, and pervasive computing
  • Hardware, operating systems, and software
  • How networks work: LANs, WANs, and the Internet
  • E-business, the Web, and security

    • The guide for ANYONE who needs to understand the key technologies driving today's economy and high tech industries!

    You can't afford not to understand the information revolution that's sweeping the world-but who's got time for all the acronyms and hype most technology books give you? "The Essential Guide to Computing" demystifies the digital society we live in with an intelligent, thorough, and up-to-date explanation of computer, networking, and Internet technologies. It's perfect for smart professionals who want to get up to speed, but don't have computer science or engineering degrees! You'll find up-to-the-minute coverage on all of today's hottest technologies including:

    • The evolution of computing: from the room-sized "monoliths" of the 1950s to today's global Internet
    • Preview of the next revolution: "pervasive computing"
    • Computer hardware: microprocessors, memory, storage, I/O, displays, and architecture
    • Windows, Macintosh, UNIX/Linux, DOS, NetWare, Palm: what operating systems do, and how they compare
    • Programming languages: from machine language to advanced object-oriented technologies
    • Key software applications: databases, spreadsheets, word processing, voice recognition, and beyond
    • Microsoft and the software industry: where they stand, where they're headed
    • How networks work: LANs, WANs, packet switching, hardware, media, and more
    • The Internet, e-commerce, and security
    • Enterprise applications: data warehousing, Web-centered development, and groupware

    Whether you're a consumer, investor, marketer, or executive, this is your start-to-finish briefing on the information technologies that have changed the world-and the coming technologies that will transform it yet again!
    Additional Information
    BISAC Categories:
    - Computers | Hardware - Personal Computers - General
    - Computers | Computer Science
    - Computers | Management Information Systems
    Dewey: 004
    LCCN: 00062343
    Series: Essential Guide
    Physical Information: 1" H x 7" W x 9.1" (1.85 lbs) 528 pages
     
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    Publisher Description:
    The guide for ANYONE who needs to understand the key technologies driving today's economy and high tech industries

    You can't afford not to understand the information revolution that's sweeping the world-but who's got time for all the acronyms and hype most technology books give you? The Essential Guide to Computing demystifies the digital society we live in with an intelligent, thorough, and up-to-date explanation of computer, networking, and Internet technologies. It's perfect for smart professionals who want to get up to speed, but don't have computer science or engineering degrees You'll find up-to-the-minute coverage on all of today's hottest technologies including:
    -- The evolution of computing: from the room-sized "monoliths" of the 1950s to today's global Internet
    -- Preview of the next revolution: "pervasive computing"
    -- Computer hardware: microprocessors, memory, storage, I/O, displays, and architecture
    -- Windows, Macintosh, UNIX/Linux, DOS, NetWare, Palm: what operating systems do, and how they compare
    -- Programming languages: from machine language to advanced object-oriented technologies
    -- Key software applications: databases, spreadsheets, word processing, voice recognition, and beyond
    -- Microsoft and the software industry: where they stand, where they're headed
    -- How networks work: LANs, WANs, packet switching, hardware, media, and more
    -- The Internet, e-commerce, and security
    -- Enterprise applications: data warehousing, Web-centered development, and groupware

    Whether you're a consumer, investor, marketer, or executive, this is your start-to-finish briefing on the information technologies that have changed the world-and the coming technologies that will transform it yet again