Fluency With Information Technology: Skills, Concepts, and Capabilities

Key differences between 6th and 5th editions

• Time lapse between current and previous publications: 2 years (2014 vs 2012).
• Chapter 2 includes new discussion "What We See and What We Think"
• Chapter 4 has been updated to teach HTML5 and CSS3.
• Chapter 7 discusses UTF-8 character encoding.
• Chapter 10 offers new interview with Ray Kurzweil, a computer scientist and inventor.
• Chapter 12 is completely revised to provide material on recently revealed privacy threats (National Security Agency) and ongoing security attacks.
• Chapter 15 presents new discussion on SQL: The Language of Databases.
• Chapters (17–21) on JavaScript have been revised to use the Firefox Scratchpad sandbox for code development.
• Chapter 17 offers new section "Lab Practice".
• Chapter 20 presents two new discussions -- "It’s Magic" and "Not So Busy Animation"
• Chapter 23 offers new interview with David Ferrucci, the Watson project leader.