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Notes to introduce computing and online communication for beginners.

Notes on computing, aimed at beginners.

Chapter goals: Describe the basic types of communication; point-to-point, multicast, broadcast, synchronous, and asynchronous. Describe the basics of networking; IP addresses, domains, IP packets, IP protocol, WANs, and LANs. Explain the difference between the Internet and the WWW Explain file hierarchies in relation to HTML.

Notes on how to search the Internet effectively. Chapter goals: Explain what it takes to search the Internet effectively. Recall that search engines are composed of a crawler and a query processor and explain what those are. Use complex queries using logical operators AND, OR, and NOT, to effectively find information. Show how to filter and subtract search terms to remove results that are less relevant. Show how to use the CRAAP method to judge the validity of found information. Analyze an...

Notes I took in preparation for my final essay on the constitutional right to privacy in the United States.

My final essay for intro to information technology, about the constitutional right to privacy in the United States.