Quickly learn how to get the most out of your personal computing experience, whether you want to network multiple PCs, buy a PC, store photos, or download music. This easy-to-understand, step-by-step guide walks you through each task you need to complete without using unnecessary technical language. A user-friendly resource, you don’t need to have previous experience to get fast results.

Personal Computing Demystified

Computers & Technology

Long, Larry

Computer Science

McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media

No need to be intimidated by home networking! With a very readable and easy to understand writing style, this book takes the anxiety out of learning how to build or expand a home network. Read a home networking book organised like a fun and painless self-teaching guide. Use the 8-page, 2-colour visual instruction insert to see how to set up a home network. Take end of chapter quizzes to check your progress, as well as a final exam found at the end of the book.

Home Networking Demystified

Certification

This tenth edition is a technology update intended to bring Computers abreast with a rampaging technology. About six Internet years pass in one real-time year, the elapsed time since the last edition. The tenth edition retains the same familiar look and feel as the ninth edition. However, it contains hundreds of changes needed to ensure that Long continues to be the most current introductory IT book available. Includes over 150 new or updated images that reflect the latest releases and innovations in software. Numerous new photos show new hardware and applications. Throughout the book, capacities and speeds for communications hardware, disks, RAM, processors, printers, and so on have been adjusted to reflect the state of the art. Provides essential information on hardware, Windows, and networking procedures, and on word processing, e-mail, and browser software. Expanded presentation of ethics; additional coverage of the Internet; and a new IT Illustrated section on careers gives readers an in-depth look at career opportunities for IT specialists and for IT-competent people. For anyone who wants to advance their personal computing experience and skills, and individuals considering careers as IT specialists.

Computers (10th Edition)

Long, Nancy

PRENTICE/HALL

For an introductory course in computers and information technology (IT) or in computer competency, often offered in Business, CIS, or Computer Science. The comprehensive version is appropriate for a full-semester course while the brief version meets the necessary requirements for a shorter course or a course combined with a lab component.Designed to accommodate the computer competency needs of students from a broad spectrum of disciplines and interests, this best-selling text/supplements package provides an exceptionally well-illustrated overview of computing concepts and IT applications-all in a format that allows instructors the flexibility to meet their courses' educational objectives. It strikes a good balance between efficiency of presentation and content that holds students' interest and invites learning. Only concepts critical to general information technology competency are covered in order to provide the breadth of topics necessary to the understanding that is applicable today and in the future.

Computers (7th Edition)

Pearson College Div

Computers and Essential of Windows '95

This text covers material necessary for general informtion technology competency. It tries to relate its coverage to the reader's personal and professional life, and includes on-line examples, lab tutuorials, and coverage of the Windows operating environment.

Computers: Brief Edition

For a full-semester, introductory course in computers and information technology (IT) or in computer competency, often offered in Business, CIS, or Computer Science. Designed to accommodate the computer competency needs of students from a broad spectrum of disciplines and interests, this best-selling text/supplements package provides an exceptionally well-illustrated overview of computing concepts and IT applications-all in a format that allows instructors the flexibility to meet their courses' educational objectives. It strikes a good balance between efficiency of presentation and content that holds students' interest and invites learning. Only concepts critical to general information technology competency are covered in order to provide an understanding of basic computer literacy. Also available: Computers 8/E, Brief Edition (Chs. 1-8).

Computers (8th Edition)

Designed to accommodate the computer competency needs of readers from a broad spectrum of disciplines and interests, this best-selling book/supplements package provides an exceptionally well-illustrated overview of computing concepts and IT applications. It strikes a good balance between efficient presentation and interesting content, containing topics critical to general information technology competency and providing understanding that is applicable today and in the future. Chapter topics include the technology revolution, software, inside the computer, storing and retrieving information, information input and output, networks and networking, going online, exploring the Cyberworld, IT ethics and healthy computing, personal computing, information systems, developing business information systems, and technology and society. For anyone who wants to advance their personal computing experience and skills, and individuals considering careers as IT specialists.

Computers: Information Technology in Perspective (9th Edition)

Business & Money

Industries

Computers: Information Technology and Explain It Labs

Providing an overview coverage of computing/IT concepts and applications for beginners, this 11th edition has been updated to keep readers abreast of the thousands of changes in this rampaging technology; currency is the top priority. Over 150 new or updated images reflect the latest releases and innovations in software. Everything has been adjusted to reflect the state of the art. Beginning with a comprehensive section called “Getting Started,” this book covers such topics as the technology revolution, software, inside the computer, storing and retrieving information, networks and networking, going online, information technology ethics, personal computing, information systems, business information systems, and technology and society. This book provides useful and relevant information for anyone who uses a personal computer whether at home or in the office.

Computers: Information Technology in Perspective, 11th Edition

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