Information Technology Essentials

Information Technology is one of the most critical industries in the world today. Computers and information systems interact with most aspect of our daily lives. Understanding the basics of Information Technology will give you a better appreciation of how these systems are changing people lives. It will also help you determine if you are interested in pursuing a career in IT.   

In this lesson I will describe to you the basic components of a computer and how they function.

Please complete the brief quiz that is attached as a pdf file that you are to identify major components of a PC.

In this lesson I will describe the major types of computers that are in use today.

In this lesson, I will describe Moore's Law that has been used to predict the increases in computing power.

In this lecture I will present the basics of binary numbers and why they are the basis of modern computing.

In this video, I will describe the phases of the software development lifecycle.

This is a brief quiz about the steps of the software development lifecycle.

In this lesson I will describe the major types of eCommerce systems.

e-commerce systems quiz.

In this lesson I will describe what an enterprise application is.  I will also define the major different types of enterprise applications.

In this lesson, I will describe the software release process and how most organizations promote software from development through test, to staging, and on to production.  There are a number of things to consider in each environment and also establish successful exit criteria to move from one layer to the next. The steps are set up to ensure that the organization his shipping and delivering high-quality software.      

In this lecture you will learn how to write loops in C.

In this lab, you will use the Destin Learning lab environment and learn to write loops in C.

This lesson is designed to be a very brief introduction to SQL and will demonstrate how to write basic queries.  I will show how to create a basic table in the MySQL database,  insert data into the table, and utilize a SQL select statement to display the results.   Attached is a pdf file that is the lab file for this lesson that will show you step by step how to write your first query.

In this lesson I will describe the major aspects of Cloud Computing systems.

In this lesson I will describe the top 10 vendors in the Cloud Computing market today,

I will show you how to sign up for a free account with Amazon AWS.

In this lesson I will show you how you can easily build a web site with Amazon's S3 storage service.