Computing in the information age

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Computing in the information age

Nancy Stern, Robert A. Stern

Wiley, c1993

  • : pbk

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Includes index

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ISBN 9780471554875

Description

Approaches business systems from a user perspective. Features a step-by-step, self-teaching pedagogy, focusing on critical thinking by presenting concepts and analysis problems designed to promote interest in social, ethical, and legal computing issues. Includes integration of information processing ideas with software concepts, new IS products and resources, back to basics coverage of hardware such as micros and mainframes plus hot topics in computing.
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: pbk ISBN 9780471599562

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This exciting, comprehensive new introductory text presents computer concepts using extensive, proven tools that enable students to test and expand upon their understanding as they move through the text. Organized around four of the most central themes in computing today, the text relates computers, systems, and their capabilities to students' lives, touches on the past, studies the present, and looks ahead to computing in the 21st century.

Table of Contents

  • Computers and Information Processing: Basics of Computing
  • From Micros to Mammoths
  • Using Productivity Tools
  • Hardware Advances the Information Age: Computing Processing
  • Input and Output
  • Secondary Storage Devices
  • Software and Systems Drive the Information Age: Application Packages
  • Developing Custom Software
  • Systems Software
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Connectivity Unites the Information Age: Databases and Management Information Systems
  • Networks
  • Making Information Systems Private, Secure and Meaningful
  • Appendices.

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