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by: McCarthy, Matthew J.

ISBN: 9781256051695 | 1256051691

Black & White Business Computingprovides a broad view of information technology (IT) with a special emphasis on applying IT in the business environment. Instructors teaching core information technology classes often face questions such as: Why do I have to know this? Why does an accounting major need to know the difference between a motherboard and a keyboard? To such queries, Black & White Business Computinghas answers in every chapter. While it will not make non-IT majors into experts at all facets of computing, it will enable them to be an i... MOREntelligent part of the conversation and begin to prepare them for business decisions related to computing.   Black & White Business Computingintroduces the important baseline concepts of information technology and business, demonstrates their dependency on one another, and then expands those concepts with real-world examples and applications. The text is specifically designed to be repetitive. Many concepts and terms, like networking, storage, and connectivity, are not limited to a single chapter, but are introduced in many different contexts and examples. Black & White Business Computingprepares students for successful academic careers in a business school setting by familiarizing them with basic aspects of computer information systems.

Brief Contents:

 

preface
one business info
two inside the box 
three understanding os
four storage
five applications
six why the box
seven green business
eight networks
nine internet
ten websites 
eleven security 

twelve IS in business

thirteen careers

fourteen database

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Matthew J. McCarthy is a full-time faculty member at Arizona State University’s W. P. Carey School of Business in the Department of Information Systems. He is actively involved in many student groups including the Department of Information Systems Club and the Black Business Students Association. Matthew has taught a wide array of computing courses at the undergraduate level, from advanced database theory to business programming languages to core business computing, which is the inspiration of the Black & White Business Computing series.  Matthew has also designed and taught the required core business information technology computing course at ASU to thousands of students over the past many years.  In his spare time, he and his wife Theresa play tennis, travel, windsurf, kite surf, ski, cycle, and take photographs of the outdoors.     Matt can be reached at blackandwhitecomputing@yahoo.com.     You can also visit http://www.blackandwhitebusinesscomputing.com/  for more information.