Information technology : an introduction for today's digital world /
Richard Fox
- Boca Raton, Florida : CRC Press, c2013
- xxi, 542 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Includes index.
Introduction to information technology -- Computer organization and hardware -- Binary numbering system -- Introduction to operating system concepts -- Files, directories, and the file system -- Users, groups, and permissions -- History of computers -- Operating systems history -- Bash shell and editing -- Regular expressions -- Processes and services -- Networks, network software, and the Internet -- Software -- Programming -- Information -- Careers in information technology -- Appendix A: Glossary of terms --
Introduces a wide variety of concepts encountered in real-world IT work. The book covers computer organization and hardware, Windows and Linux operating systems, system administration duties, scripting, computer networks, regular expressions, binary numbers, the Bash shell in Linux, DOS, managing processes and services, and computer security.