Название: Visualizing Technology, 10th edition
Автор: Debra Geoghan
Издательство: Pearson
Год: 2024
Страниц: 705
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 106.1 MB

Visualizing Technology provides you with a hands-on, highly visual approach to computer concepts. As you learn new skills, you'll apply them to projects or IT simulations or watch Viz Clip videos to dive deeper. The text's magazine-style chapters offer consistent instruction and active practice with Digital Literacy, Essential Job Skills projects and engaging videos.

The 10th Edition covers a vast range of technological trends affecting modern workplaces, such as Blockchain, digital currency, NFTs, Metaverse, Quantum Computing, immersive technology and IoT hacks. Images have been updated throughout to better illustrate chapter concepts and each chapter begins with a Tech Challenges box to encourage thinking critically about the way digital elements impact everyday life.

Application software is software that performs a task for the user. Software that makes the computer run is system software. The operating system (OS) is the most important type of system software because it provides the user with the interface to communicate with the hardware and other software on the computer and manages system resources. Without an operating system, a personal computer is unusable. The user interface is the part of the operating system that you see and interact with. Modern operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, have a graphical user interface (GUI). A GUI enables you to point to and click graphic objects such as icons and buttons to initiate commands. Older operating systems had a command-line interface, which required you to type out all commands.

A database is a collection of information organized in a useful way. The coupon organizer is a simple database that works reasonably well for the narrow type of information stored in it. An electronic version of the coupon organizer gives me more ways to manage my coupons. I am not limited to a single category for my ice cream. I can search for coupons from a particular brand or sort them by expiration date, and I can create custom shopping lists based on the coupons I have. Today my coupons are digital, not paper, and the stores where I shop allow me to keep everything in my digital wallet or mobile app.

What’s New?
New and expanded content coverage, including:
Windows 11
Blockchain
Digital currency and NFTs
Metaverse
Quantum computing
Immersive technologies

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