Information Technology: An Introduction for Today’s Digital World

Information Technology: An Introduction for Todays Digital World introduces undergraduate students to a wide variety of concepts they will encounter throughout their IT studies and careers. The book covers computer organization and hardware Windows and Linux operating systems system administration duties scripting computer networks regular expressions binary numbers the Bash shell in Linux DOS managing processes and services and computer security. It also gives students insight on IT-related careers such as network and web administration computer forensics web development and software engineering. Suitable for any introductory IT course this classroom-tested text presents many of the topics recommended by the ACM Special Interest Group on IT Education (SIGITE). It offers a far more detailed examination of the computer than current computer literacy texts focusing on concepts essential to all IT professionalsfrom operating systems and hardware to information security and computer ethics. The book highlights Windows/DOS and Linux with numerous examples of issuing commands and controlling the operating systems. It also provides details on hardware programming and computer networks. Ancillary Resources The book includes laboratory exercises and some of the figures from the text online. PowerPoint lecture slides answers to exercises and a test bank are also available for instructors.