These books covers the fundamental computing concepts that are part of the digital age, including software, hardware, data, people and procedures. The text centres on educating today's technology consumer, using themes of ethics, the Internet and communications to demonstrate how the changing world of technology influences our lives and the decisions we make. - Revised end-of-chapter materials stress three areas: Review of key terms and facts; Review of concepts; Critical thinking exercises and projects. - Visuals illustrate how to use software, how hardware works (including how to understand an ad for a PC), and how computers are used in interesting, uncommon ways. - New elements incorporated throughout the text enhance student learning and level of interest: Click Along (Featured throughout the text with updated and extended information on the web); Survival Tips (Giving students useful tips to help them work with computers and information).
- ISBN10 0256199280
- ISBN13 9780256199284
- Publish Date 1 June 1995
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 April 2008
- Publish Country US
- Publisher McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
- Imprint Irwin Professional Publishing
- Language English