Computers Are Your Future 2006

Book excerpt: Now available in two versions rather than three, this introduction to computers book is one that users will engage with -- maintaining the encyclopedic approach in the popular magazine style. It is refreshing, accurate, and easy to learn from-written to today's reader. The Eighth Edition moves the emphasis to connectivity and includes loads of new research to ensure that the statistics in the book are current. This edition emphasizes emerging technologies while de-emphasizing older technologies. The Complete version is chapters 10-14 of the Introductory version (with one Spotlight at the end on Emerging Technologies). Covers Careers and Certification, Programming, Databases and Information Systems, Systems Analysis and Design, and Enterprise Computing. For anyone wanting a basic knowledge of computers to apply to their jobs or lives.