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Managing Software

[Completed] Technical Support Fundament... Interacting with Software

Program, software, and applications are terms that are synonymous with each other. For now, we'll...

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Phelan: Learning IT in the Navy

[Completed] Technical Support Fundament... Introduction to Software

 In high school, I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do yet, but when I joined the US Navy, one...

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Recipe for Computing

[Completed] Technical Support Fundament... Introduction to Software

Remember that in the 1950s, computer scientists used punch cards to store programs. These punch c...

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Revisiting Abstracting

[Completed] Technical Support Fundament... Introduction to Software

Earlier in this course, we talked about how programs are instructions that are given to a CPU. We...

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Supplemental Reading for Software Versioning

[Completed] Technical Support Fundament... Introduction to Software

For more information about software versioning, click here. (its wikipedia :D) Heads up: A big p...

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Types of Software

[Completed] Technical Support Fundament... Introduction to Software

When you write content, create a piece of art, or engineer something, your work is protected for ...

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Scripting Languages

[Completed] Technical Support Fundament... Introduction to Software

Scripting languages allow a coding professional to create scripts that execute tasks. Often, this...

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Common Scripting Solutions

[Completed] Technical Support Fundament... Introduction to Software

In this reading, you will learn about a variety of scripting languages, their uses, and their ris...

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How software is built: Coding, scripting, and programming

[Completed] Technical Support Fundament... Introduction to Software

Video games, music players, and Internet browsers are all different types of software that have c...

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Module Introduction

[Completed] Technical Support Fundament... Introduction to Software

Hi. My name is Phelan Vendeville, and I'm a Systems Engineer in the Site Reliability Organization...

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Learner Story: Melinda

[Completed] Technical Support Fundament... Impact of the Internet

The world changes. Things change. I was cleaning up the other day, and I was throwing away old di...

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Heather Adkins: keeping hackers out

[Completed] Technical Support Fundament... Impact of the Internet

My name is Heather Adkins. I'm director of information security and privacy here at Google. And o...

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Privacy and Security

[Completed] Technical Support Fundament... Impact of the Internet

The added convenience made possible by the Internet also makes it harder and harder for us to mai...

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Gian: what he does in Android Security

[Completed] Technical Support Fundament... Impact of the Internet

My name is Gian Bokassa, and I'm a Program Manager with the Android Security Team. The Android Se...

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Supplemental Reading for Internet of Things

[Completed] Technical Support Fundament... Impact of the Internet

To learn more about the "Internet of Things," click here. (or just read my copy and paste below) ...

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Internet of Things

[Completed] Technical Support Fundament... Impact of the Internet

You may have heard of the phrase Internet of Things or IoT. This concept is pretty new, but alrea...

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Impact

[Completed] Technical Support Fundament... Impact of the Internet

There's no doubt that the Internet has made it much easier for us to connect with our friends and...

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Changing Careers

[Completed] Technical Support Fundament... What is Networking?

 A lot of the skills from my previous jobs, such as at the call center that I can apply now, is m...

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Limitations of the Internet

[Completed] Technical Support Fundament... What is Networking?

We've mentioned IP addresses a lot in this course, but we haven't actually gone into detail about...

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History of the Internet

[Completed] Technical Support Fundament... What is Networking?

You've learned what the Internet is and a little bit about how it works. Now, we're going to take...

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