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Fluency with Information Technology: Skills, Concepts, and Capabilities, Fourth Edition, equips readers who are already old with computers, the Internet, and the World Wide Web with a deeper discernment of the panoptic capabilities of technology.
Becoming Skilled at Information Technology: Terms of Endearment: Defining Information Technology; What the Digerati Know: Exploring the Human—Computer Interface; Making the Connection: The Basics of Networking; Marking Up with HTML: A Hypertext Markup Language Primer; Searching for Truth: Locating Information on the WWW; Searching for Guinea Pig B: Case Study in Online Research. Algorithms and Digitizing Information: To Err Is Human: An Introduction to Debugging; Bits and the “Why” of Bytes: Representing Information Digitally; Following Instructions: Principles of Computer Operation; What’s the Plan? Algorithmic Thinking; Light, Sound, Magic: Representing Multimedia Digitally. Data and Information: Computers in Polite Society: Social Implications of IT; Shhh, It’s a Secret: Privacy and Digital Security; Fill-in-the-Blank Computing: Basics of Spreadsheets; ‘What If’ Thinking Helps: Advanced Spreadsheets for Planning; A Table with a View: Database Queries; iDiary: A Case Study in Database Design. Problem Solving: Get with the Program: Fundamental Concepts Expressed in JavaScript; The Bean Counter: A JavaScript Program; Thinking Big: Programming Functions; Once Is Not Enough: Iteration Principles; The Smooth Motion: Case Study in Algorithmic Problem Solving; Computers Can Do Almost {Everything, Nothing}: Limits to Computation; A Fluency Summary: Click to Close.
For readers fascinated in computers, the Internet, the World Wide Web, and a deeper discernment of technology.

Fluency with Information Technology: Skills, Concepts, and Capabilities