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| Basic stands for Beginners’ All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. |
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| Basic stands for Beginners’ All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. |
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a modern interpreted programming language with powerful built-in
features and a unique indentation feature to shorten coding. |
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| a programming language that was designed to be portable and replace C++ |
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a programming language designed to be embedded inside HTML to build
dynamic web pages or update them from databases. |
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a person who writes the step-by-step instructions that tell the
computer what to do. A programmer also debugs programs. |
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an acronym for HyperText Markup Language. It is a series of codes,
sometimes called tags. It is a computer language used to design web pages. It allows
all types of computers to interpret information on the World Wide Web in the same way.
Other languages include CSS, MySQL, PHP, XHTML, and ASP. |
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| Transmission Control Protocol Internet Protocol |
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ID is like an address label on a package or packet transmitted over the Internet. TCP
keeps track of every item in a package or packet being transmitted. This protocol is
used most often in wide area networks, as well as the Net itself. |
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stands for file transfer protocol. FTP software transfers files, information, and
data from one computer to another. It is one of the first protocol methods established
on the Net to actually download and upload various types of files to other users on the Net |
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any computer providing network services and resources to other
computers; servers are the key computers in networks. Servers are not usually used as
workstations. |
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a group of computers and their peripheral devices that are linked
together for the purpose of sharing information or resources. Networks allow users to
share or transfer files or graphics from one computer in the network to another. |
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| Local Area Network (LAN). |
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distributed computer network where file servers and desktop stations are
physically connected within a relatively small area (usually the same room or building) |
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Whenever a connection is made to a server or service that is not available on a
given LAN, |
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the physical connection of two or more computers
that are separated by a distance greater than the distance in a LAN environment
(usually between different buildings or cities). |
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the use of computer technology to send digitized graphics,
charts, and text from one facsimile machine to another. |
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a system that links personal computers by telephone
and provides public-access messages. |
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a device that fits inside a personal computer and allows the
user to transmit computer generated text and graphics without interrupting other
application programs. |
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MOdulator DEModulator, allows you to
communicate from one computer to another by taking analog signals from the phone
lines or radio waves and changing them into digital signals for the computer, and visa versa |
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WWW, refers to the vast number of computer
resources connected by the Internet. |
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a public communications network used by private companies,
government bodies, and academic institutions in over 30 countries. It allows users to
search for information, shop for products, send electronic mail, play games, and chat
electronically with people in different cities, states, or countries. |
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Internet Service Provider, is a company that provides people with
access to the Internet, usually for a monthly fee. |
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other Web site addresses (called Uniform Resource
Locators or URL’s) that are coded into an HTML document. |
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Uniform Resource Locator. URL’s tell the Browser where to go to find
specific hypertext documents on any host server in the world. |
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a user-friendly program necessary to access the Internet that
interprets HTML and other coding languages. Examples of Browsers are Internet
Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Safari. |
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Cascading Style Sheets, is another computer language used to design
Web pages that provides more flexibility and control in the specification of presentation
characteristics, and reduces complexity and repetition in the structural content of HTML
code. |
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an HTML document that contains information that can be viewed
on the Internet. |
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a system connecting keywords in documents to text in another
location by means of a hypertext link. |
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a term coined by William Gibson in his visionary novel,
Neuromancer. In science fiction, cyberspace is an universal computer network that
looks and feels like a physical place--a shared virtual reality. The term is also used to
refer to today’s networks and virtual reality experiments. |
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a system in which a spoken message is digitized and stored in the
recipient’s voice mailbox. Later the recipient can dial the mailbox, and the system
delivers the message in audio form. |
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electronic mail, sending messages directly from one terminal or computer
to another. The messages may be sent and stored for later retrieval. |
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| controls the utilization of hardware and peripherals. |
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different and sometimes incompatible computer hardware and
software systems. Each major system is called a platform; for example Macintosh and
Linux are both considered platforms. Software can also be divided into various
platforms. DOS and Windows are considered to be different or separate platforms. |
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| IBM/IBM compatibles and Apple macintosh |
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| two most common types of PC’s |
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low-cost personal computer as powerful as a room-sized computer that
is designed to be used by one person at a time. |
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| two most common types of operating systems for personal computers |
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Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 for Microsoft, and Tiger, Leopard, or
Snow Leopard for Macintosh. |
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a large computer that has access to billions of
characters of data and is capable of processing data very quickly. |
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