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Computer concepts Comvuter concepts 1 From the New Perspectives Series Team Preface CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER SIX Local Area Networks and E-mail 6.1 Local Area Networks 6.2 Network Hardware 6.3 Software for Networks 6.4 User Focus: Electronic Mail CHAPTER SEVEN 6-1 6-4 Using Computers : Essential Concepts 11Computers: Mind Tools . 1.2 Computer System Basks 1.3 The User Interface 1.4 User Focus: Help, Tutorials, and Manuals CHAPTER TWO 6-12 6-17 6-21 The lnternet and the Information Highway 7-1 7.1 Touring the Information Highway 7.2 Commercial Information Services 7.3 The Internet 7.4 User Focus: Getting Connected to the lnternet CHAPTER EIGHT Software and Multimedia Applications 2.1 Computer Software Basics 2.2 System Software 2.3 Application Software 2.4 Multlmedla 2.5 User Focus: Installing Software CHAPTER T H R E E Data Security and Control 8.1 What Can Go Wrong 8.2 Viruses, Vandalism, and Computer Crime 8.3 Data Security and Risk Maoagment 8.4 User Focus: Backup CHAPTER NINE Computer Files and Data Storage 3.1 Data, Information, and Files 3.2 Storage Technologies 3.3 User Focus: Using Files CHAPTER FOUR Data Representation 9.1 information Theory 9.2 Representing Graphics and Video 9.3 RepresentlngSound 9.4 Data Compression 9.5 User Focus: Using a Compression Utility Computer Architecture 4.1 Digital Electronics 4.2 Memory 4.3 Central Processing Unit 4.4 1/0 4.5 User Focus: The Boot Process CHAPTER FIVE The Computer Marketplace 5.1 Consumer's Guide to Desktop Computer Systems 5.2 Consumer's Guide to Notebook Computers 5.3 Product Life Cycles 5.4 The Computer industry: Tiers,Channels and the Press 5.5 User Focus: Computer Shopping Strategies CHAPTER T E N CHAPTER THIRTEEN Communications Systems Infrastructure 10-1 1 . Communications Systems 01 1 . Data Communlcations 02 1 . Local Area Network Communlcations 03 1. 04 User Managing the Data in Files and Databases 1 . flle and Database Concepts 31 1 . flle and Database Software 32 1 . flle and Database Managment Tasks 33 1 . Deslgning Effectlve Output 34 1. 35 User Focus: Uslng Boolean Loglc in Queries 13-1 134 1316 Focus: Setting Up a Modem 13-21 1327 1333 C H A P T E R ELEVEN lnformation Systems in Organizations 1 . Organizational Structure 11 1 . People, Decisions, and lnformation 12 1 . lnformation Systems 13 1 . User Focus: Creating Expert System 14 Facts and Rules CHAPTER TWELVE CHAPTER F O U R T E E N Computer Programming 1 . Software Englneerlng 41 1 . Codlng Computer Programs 42 1 . Debugging and Documenting 43 1 . Programming Language Characteristics 44 1. 45 User Focus: Selecting a Programming Language 14-1 14-4 14-12 1417 1420 1428 Developing Effective lnformation Systems 1 . Analyze Needs 21 1 . Design the New System 22 1 . Construct the System 23 1 . Implement the New System 24 1 . Malntain the System 25 1 . User Focus: Uslng Data Flow Diagrams 26 Answers to Quick Checks Glossary/ Index QG1 GI-1