Technology in Action-Complete

by Kendall Martin, Mary Anne Poatsy, Alan Evans

Designed to spark student interest by teaching practical concepts they want to learn (such as setting up a wireless network in their home) while still teaching material the students need to learn.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0131489046
• ISBN13: 9780131489042
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 648 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 28.0" x 22.0" x 22.0"

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My choice for an "Introduction to Computers" text

There are many books that could be used in the introduction to computers level of classes. They tend to be very similar, in topics, order and structure. While this book is more of the same, there is one feature that stands out, the coverage of ethics in the context of computing. Ethics and the proper usage of computers is a significant aspect of the computing culture for all of us, but it is more significant for the college student. The advent of the Internet has made it much easier to obtain information and harder to filter it for accuracy. It is now much easier to plagiarize; all you have to do is copy and paste. Fortunately, it is also easier for instructors to identify an act of plagiarism; there are websites that will do it for you. The digitization of music makes it easy to download and play music on MP3 players. This list could continue for some time. There are several places in the book where ethical principles are related to the topic. It is to the credit of the authors that this coverage is not just a spouting of facts; the questions are designed to have the students think about the situation and reach their own ethical conclusions. This book is superior to the companion introductory volume with the same name. It contains more material than the introductory volume and all other things being equal I prefer to skip rather to supplement. It is most unlikely that I will ever teach an introductory course in computing again. However, if I was to do so, I would take a hard look at this book, it is suitable for the course and I would most certainly adopt it.

Fantastic Introduction to Computers

Technology in Action is a great book for college-level computer concepts classes. I have taught with Technology in Action at a community college for 4 years now. The book is written to engage today's students with a very useful question and answer format. I find my students are reading again since using Technology in Action! My students also love the multimedia that comes on the CD (packaged with the text) which they describe as entertaining, informative and fun! Wow, students who think learning is fun...what a concept! I highly recommend this text for freshman and sophomore computer concepts classes. This is a book your students will read and enjoy!

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