Application Project 6
Matthew Pence
Problem Solving Strategies
• Information Technology The research and development of technology applied to the transfer of information between computers and networks.
• Personal Computers Electronic devices for processing and retaining data.
• Needs Assesment The ability to examine and determine what a user requires of a computer or network based on given criteria.
• Operating Systems Program code designed to interpret application commands and allow the user to interface with the computer.
• High-level Language versus Machine Language High level language is the language that is most comfortable for the user to interface with the computer as opposed to Machine Language which is composed of a sequence of simple bits of information.
• Graphic User Interface A visual display presented by the operating system that allows the user to interface with the computer using graphical representations of commands as opposed to having to memorize and learn a variety of command sequences.
• WWW vs. Internet The WWW is the internet spread across the global computer community whereas the internet can refer to just one section of the WWW network.
• TCP/IP A networking protocol most commonly used on the internet to transfer data packets.
• Ethernet/Fast Ethernet Ethernet is a type of network connection, usually using Cat-5 cabling and RJ-45 connectors traveling at 10 megabits per second. Fast Ethernet is capable of transferring data at 100 Mbit/s or 1000 Mbit/s.
• Bandwidths and Speed Bandwidth is a measure of the maximum amount of data that can travel across a connection. It works similar to a pipeline in that the more band width you have, the more data that can travel, and the faster it can travel.
• ISPs Companies that buy a block of IP addresses and allow users to access the global internet via their servers, assigning each user a unique address.
• Streaming Video Connections with a high enough bandwidth can receive streaming video which is coded, uploaded, transferred across the internet, then received and decoded by the end users machine in real time.
&147; MPG A popular format for audio and visual media that compresses movie and audio in a medium quality for playback.
• AVIs Movie files that are lower quality than MPEG files, but also take up much less speace.
• Virtual Environments The shell from one operates on the internet. This includes connection type, Operating System, and internet browsing software.
• Visual Basic A programming Language used to write simple applications.
• C++ - A coding language that involves high level commands and can be used to generate operating system software.
• Object Oriented programming Programming designed to incorporate several separate applications and interface them using related variables.
• Browser A program designed to access and decode internet page languages for viewing. This may be achieved by the help of a plug-in utility.
• HTML A simple language used for displaying text, tables, and linking to images, sounds, and animations. Generally HyperText Markup Language is universally readable and is flexible across a variety of Platforms.
• Static Web Page A webpage in which the user can view posted information, but provides no way for the user to input information into the website or a related database.
• Interactive Web Page A webpage in which the user can input changes into the website affecting how things are viewed, or enter information to be retrieved by the webmaster from a linked database.
• URL Uniform Resource Locator; It is simply an address for a remote computer that can be accessed across the internet. Each server on the internet has a unique URL.
