Information Technology Essentials Volume 1

I designed this book to be a survey of basic building blocks of Information Systems, and I based it on entry-level college courses that I have taught over the years. The material covers several baseline topics that are core to computer science and information technology. These topics include:

• An introduction and overview of computer hardware
• How software is built by industry today using the software development lifecycle.
• Cloud computing and the services that are offered by the leading ven...