1. Information Technology: Is how a company manages and handles information.

 

 

2. Personal Computer: This is a device that calculates numbers. Those two numbers are 0, 1. That’s the only language that a computer knows. Its how it calculates those numbers that we get data that we use.
3. Needs assessment: This is a way to assess how you understand a certain subject.
4. Operating System: An operating system is a way for you and the computer to communicate.
5. High-level language versus machine language: low level is the language that the computer understands. High-level language is a way for a programmer to write a program.
6. Graphic user interface (GUI) this is what we use everyday when we use a computer. It allows us to interact with the computer.
7. Computer Network: a computer network is how two or more computers communicate with each other to share information.
8. WWW versus Internet: www stands for “Wide Word Web” and is a system of Internet servers that uses HTML documents. The “internet” is a global network connecting millions of computers.
9. TCP/IP: stands for Transmission Control Protocol: This is a format for transmitting data between two devices (ie: printers, drives, joysticks, internet) IP stands for Internet Protocol this is a way for information to be sent between to computers.
10. Ethernet/fast Ethernet: is a way for sending data from your computer to another computer at rates up 10Mbs. Fast Ethernet is the same as Ethernet but transfer data at 100Mbs.
11. Bandwidths and speed: Bandwidth is the amount of data that can be transferred in a given time.  Speed is how fast the data is transferred.
12. ISP’s: This stands for “Internet service provider” this is a provider for Internet service.
13. Streaming video: This is video that is sent over the Internet and viewed with your media player. It allows you to view a video before it is completely downloaded
14. MPG: Stands for Mpeg animation. Mpeg is a form of video compression.
15. AVIs: stands for “Audio Video Interleave” this is a file format for Microsoft’s video standard.
16. Virtual environments: This is an imaginary environment not a physical.
17. Visual Basic: is simply a programming language that was developed by Microsoft. It allows a programmer to create user interfaces.
18. C++: is a programming language to develop graphical applications.
19. Batch files: is a way to keep a set of commands together when it’s executed.
20. Object orientated programming: is when a programmer structures data so that you can click on an object.
21. Browser: This what enables you to display web pages. (Internet explorer, Netscape)
22. HTML: Stands for Hyper Text Markup. This is used to create document for the World Wide Web.
23. Static web page: is a web page that you can’t interact with. ex. looking for airline tickets.
24. Interactive web page: Is a web page that you can interact with (ex. Looking up airline tickets)
25. URL: Uniform Resource Locator. It’s a way to locate Items (documents, or data) on the WWW.