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Understanding Computers: Today and Tomorrow, Comprehensive

Author(s): Deborah Morley | Charles S. Parker

ISBN: 9789355733931

1st Edition

Copyright: 2015

India Release: 2022

₹995

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 752

Trim Size: 279 x 216 mm

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Understanding Computers: Today and Tomorrow gives your students a classic introduction to computer concepts with a modern twist! Known for its emphasis on industry insight and societal issues, this text makes concepts relevant to today's career-focused students and has increased emphasis on mobile computing and related issues such as mobile commerce and mobile security.

  • Interviews with industry experts provide students with current and accurate insight on new technologies and trends.
  • Emphasis throughout the book on societal issues such as ethics, intellectual property rights, security, and privacy keeps students informed on topics that are relevant to their lives today.
  • Updated to cover current and emerging technologies and how they affect students' lives today!
  • CAUTION boxes offer practical tips that students can use immediately to protect themselves from hardware, security, or privacy problems.
  • Increased emphasis on mobile computing (including smartphones, media tablets, mobile apps, and issues such as mobile commerce and mobile security).
  • New Balancing Act project in each chapter (states a current issue and students need to pick a side and defend it).
  • All topics and figures updated for currency.
  • New Hardware Developments: Includes smartphones, media tablets, Google Glass, hybrid notebook-tablet computers, personal 3D printers, projector phones, perceptual computing, gesture input, DNA storage, 4K (Ultra HD) Blu-ray Discs, and digital ecosystems.
  • New Software Developments: Includes big data, Firefox OS, iOS 7, Windows Phone 8, and other new mobile operating systems, Office 2013, digital badges, and the impact of cloud computing.

1. Introduction to the World of Computers.

2. The System Unit: Processing and Memory.

3. Storage.

4. Input and Output.

5. System Software: Operating Systems and Utility Programs.

6. Application Software.

7. Computer Networks.

8. The Internet and the World Wide Web.

9. Network and Internet Security.

10. Multimedia and the Web.

11. E-Commerce.

12. Information Systems and System Development.

13. Program Development and Programming Languages.

14. Databases and Database Management Systems.

15. Computer Security and Privacy

16. Intellectual Proper Rights, Ethics, Health, Access and the Environment

References and Resources Guide.

Glossary.

Deborah Morley

Deborah Morley has authored more than ten popular computer textbooks, including UNDERSTANDING COMPUTERS: TODAY AND TOMORROW and UNDERSTANDING COMPUTERS IN A CHANGING SOCIETY. Professor Morley earned her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Business Information Systems from California State University, Fresno. Today, she offers more than ten years of experience teaching at the college level.

Charles S. Parker