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Prepares students for lifelong learning through the fundamentals of computing

NEW! Content updates incorporate changes that accommodate how students encounter computation in their daily lives: advances in smartphones, HTML5, CSS3, cloud technology, web accessibility, and more.
This textbook largely implements the vision of the NRC (National Research Council) committee in which they proposed a three-part content - Skills, Concepts, and Capabilities - and integrates that content through the use of projects.

Skills refers to proficiency with contemporary computer applications such as email, word processing, web searches, and so forth. Only more advanced skills remain in Fluency as this knowledge is generally known to students on arrival to college.
Concepts refers to the fundamental knowledge underpinning IT, such as computer functionality, digital representation of information, assessment of information authenticity, and so forth. Concepts provide the principles on which students will build new understanding as IT evolves.
Capabilities refers to higher-level thinking processes such as creativity, problem solving, reasoning, complexity management, and troubleshooting. Capabilities embody modes of thinking that are essential to exploiting IT, but they apply broadly. Reasoning, problem solving, and so forth are standard components of education; their significance in IT makes them topics of emphasis in the Fluency approach.

Engaging features encourage fluency with Information Technology

Learning Objectives open each chapter with a list of key concepts that readers should master after reading the chapter.
Several boxed features appear throughout the text to aid in students’ understanding of the material:

FluencyTIPs present practical hints and suggestions for everyday computer use.
FluencyBITs and FluencyBYTEs provide interesting facts and statistics.
FluencyALERTs provide warnings and explanations of common mistakes.

TryITs are short, in-chapter exercises, with solutions provided.
FluencyBACK Stories provide a historical look at some of the major people and milestones in computing.
Solutions are provided to selected questions for multiple-choice and short-answer sections.
The companion website is located at: www.pearsonhighered.com/snyder and contains:

23 online labs (1 for each chapter in the book). The labs are designed to more fully explore (and test) students’ understanding of concepts in the book and how those issues or concepts apply to their lives.
VideoNotes: short videos that enhance concepts presented in the textbook.
HTML sources, database designs, and JavaScript programs used in the textbook examples
A JavaScript reference card, glossary flashcards, and a downloadable workbook (PDF) on Alice and the Alice development environment

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