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Fluency with IT: Skills, Concepts, & Capabilities
Technical skill development course for understanding modern-day IT concepts and practices.
- 30 Interactive Lessons and 221 topics mapped to the official exam objectives
- 437 Practice Test Questions and 2 Full Length Tests
Beginner Self-paced · 1 year access 4.8/5 (230 Reviews)
30Interactive Lessons
221Topics
437Practice Test Questions
419Flashcards
419Glossary of terms
01 / Skills you'll get
What you will be able to do
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Fluency with IT: Skills, Concepts, & Capabilities is an online skill development course that upgrades your digital competency and gives you an edge in today’s tech landscape. It is an ideal starting point for all those with a non-technical background wanting to enhance their IT knowledge and problem-solving skills. The comprehensive syllabus covers fundamental IT concepts like hardware, software, networking, and the internet. You’ll develop the ability to effectively use technology for various purposes.
- Understanding of IT basics for complete digital literacy and fluency
- Ability to identify and resolve technical issues
- Create web pages and apps in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Understand database concepts and SQL to manage and analyze data
- Familiarity with software development programming fundamentals
- Awareness of cybersecurity best practices and protection techniques
- Resolve complex issues by breaking them into smaller, manageable steps
- Creative problem-solving capabilities
- Ability to effectively communicate technical information to others
Course Highlights
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30 Structured Lessons Comprehensive coverage of core course objectives
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437 Practice Questions Assessment tests with detailed answer rationales
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1 Year Full Access Self-paced learning accessible anytime on all devices
02 / Lessons & labs
See exactly what you will learn and practice
Lessons
30 Interactive Lessons · 221 topics01 Defining Information Technology 7 topics +
- Computation's Greatest Hits
- Terms of Endearment
- Computers, Software, Algorithms
- The Words for Ideas
- Summary
- Short Answers
- Exercises
02 Exploring the Human-Computer Interface 6 topics +
- A Few Useful Concepts
- Perfect Reproduction
- What We See and What We Think
- Summary
- Short Answers
- Exercises
03 The Basics of Networking 7 topics +
- Comparing Communication Types
- The Medium of the Message
- The World Wide Web
- File Structure
- Summary
- Short Answers
- Exercises
04 A Hypertext Markup Language Primer 15 topics +
- Marking Up with HTML
- Lab Practice I
- Structuring Documents
- Lab Practice II
- Get Into Style with CSS
- Marking Links and Images
- Referring to Files
- Span, Lists, Tables, and Boxes
- Cascading Style Sheets
- Styling with Class
- Hovering Above Links
- HTML Wrap–Up
- Summary
- Short Answer
- Exercises
05 Locating Information on the WWW 8 topics +
- Web Search Fundamentals
- Advanced Searches
- Web Searching
- Authoritative Information
- Truth or Fiction?
- Summary
- Short Answer
- Exercises
06 An Introduction to Debugging 11 topics +
- Precision: The High Standards of Computing
- Debugging: What's the Problem?
- A Dialog About Debugging
- Debugging Recap
- Fixing HTML Bugs: A Case Study
- No Printer Output: A Classic Scenario
- Ensuring the Reliability of Software
- Community Debugging
- Summary
- Short Answers
- Exercises
07 Representing Information Digitally 10 topics +
- Digitizing Discrete Information
- Information Representation
- Binary and Hex
- Digitizing Numbers in Binary
- Digitizing Text
- UTF-8
- The Metadata and the OED
- Summary
- Short Answer
- Exercises
08 Representing Multimedia Digitally 10 topics +
- Digitizing Color
- Computing on Representations
- Digitizing Sound
- Digital Images and Video
- Optical Character Recognition
- Multimedia Challenges
- Bits Are It
- Summary
- Short Answers
- Exercises
09 Principles of Computer Operations 12 topics +
- There's an App for That
- Software Isn't So Hard
- Instruction Execution Engine
- The Program Counter: The PC's PC
- Instruction Execution
- Translation
- Integrated Circuits
- How Semiconductor Technology Works
- Combining the Ideas
- Summary
- Short Answer
- Exercises
10 Algorithmic Thinking 7 topics +
- Algorithms
- Algorithms—A Basic Concept
- A Closer Look
- Doing the Right Thing
- Summary
- Short Answer
- Exercises
11 Social Implications of IT 11 topics +
- The Power of the Crowd
- Out on Good Behavior
- Expect the Unexpected
- Creating Good Passwords
- Spam
- Scams
- Protecting Intellectual Property
- Creative Commons
- Summary
- Short Answer
- Exercises
12 Privacy and Digital Security 14 topics +
- Privacy and Technology
- A Privacy Definition
- Enjoying the Benefits of Privacy
- Fair Information Practices
- Is There No Privacy?
- Tracking
- Cookies
- Digital Security
- Prevention
- Encryption
- Redundancy Is Very, Very, Very Good
- Summary
- Short Answer
- Exercises
13 The Basics of Spreadsheets 7 topics +
- Arranging Information
- Computing with Spreadsheets
- Daily Spreadsheets
- Importing Data
- Summary
- Short Answer
- Exercise
14 Advanced Spreadsheets for Planning 9 topics +
- Designing a Spreadsheet
- Conditional Formatting
- Conditional Formulas
- Naming: Symbolic Reference
- What If Analysis
- Analyzing Data Using Filtering
- Summary
- Short Answer
- Exercises
15 Introduction to Database Concepts 9 topics +
- Differences Between Tables and Databases
- XML: A Language for Metadata Tags
- Tables and Entities
- The Science of Tables
- SQL: The Language of Databases
- Structure of a Database
- Summary
- Short Answer
- Exercises
16 A Case Study in Database Organization 7 topics +
- Thinking About a Personal Database
- A Preliminary Exercise
- The iDiary Database
- Using the iDiary Daily
- Summary
- Short Answer
- Exercises
17 Fundamental Concepts Expressed in JavaScript 11 topics +
- Overview: Programming Concepts
- Names, Values, and Variables
- Three Basic Data Types of JavaScript
- The Assignment Statement
- Lab Practice
- An Expression and Its Syntax
- A Conditional Statement
- The Espresso Program
- Summary
- Short Answer
- Exercises
18 A JavaScript Program 9 topics +
- Preliminaries
- Background for the UI
- Creating the Graphical User Interface
- Event-Based Programming
- Critiquing the Bean Counter
- Bean Counter Recap
- Summary
- Short Answer
- Exercises
19 Programming Functions 9 topics +
- Anatomy of a Function
- Forms and Functions
- Writing Functions, Using Functions
- Customizing Pages
- Making a Web-Based Phone App
- Social Functions
- Summary
- Short Answer
- Exercises
20 Iteration Principles 11 topics +
- Iteration: Play It Again, Sam
- JavaScript Rules for for Loops
- Experiments with Flipping Coins
- Indexing
- Arrays
- It's Magic
- The Busy Animation
- Not So Busy Animation
- Summary
- Short Answer
- Exercises
21 A Case Study in Algorithmic Problem Solving 13 topics +
- The Smooth Motion Application
- Planning Smooth Motion
- Build the Basic Web Page UI
- Animate the Grid
- The Best Laid Plans . . .
- Build Controls
- Sense the Keys
- Staircase Detection
- Assemble Overall Design
- Primp the Design
- Summary
- Short Answer
- Exercises
22 Limits to Computation 10 topics +
- Can Computers Think?
- Acting Intelligently?
- Watson
- Acting Creatively?
- The Universality Principle
- More Work, Slower Speed
- Are Best Algorithms All Fast?
- Summary
- Short Answer
- Exercises
23 A Fluency Summary 6 topics +
- Two Big Computing Ideas
- Fluency: Less Is More
- Lifelong IT Learning
- Shifting for Yourself
- Short Answer
- Exercises
24 Appendix A 1 topics +
- HTML5 Reference
25 Appendix B: RSA Public Key Cryptosystem +
26 Appendix C: iDiary: Tags and Templates +
27 Appendix D 1 topics +
- JavaScript Programming Rules
28 Appendix E: The Bean Counter Program +
29 Appendix F: myApps Page +
30 Appendix G: Smooth Motion Program +
03 / FAQs
Questions before you start
Who should take this course?+
This course is ideal for the following types of learners:
- High school students preparing for technical courses
- Professionals from a non-technical background
Is this a beginner-friendly course?+
Yes, this is an IT fluency for beginners course.
What are the career advantages?+
In order to have a successful career in today’s day and age, you must possess digital fluency. This course will provide you a strong foundation in IT opening doors to a wide range of careers, from software development and cybersecurity to data analysis and network engineering. It is the ideal starting point for learning technology.
What are the technical requirements to take this course?+
No, everything that you need to learn technology will be provided at our platform.
Will there be a certification at the end of this course?+
Yes, after completing the course there will be a final assessment and certification.
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