Fluency with Information Technology German Flores CSE 3 Fluency with Information Technology Computational Thinking Making Information Available to the World in HTML and Web Pages Using the Notepadd++ application we can code HTML pages to run and eventually publish onto the internet using a file transfer protocol. Things to remember: HTML – Hyper Text Markup Language ftp – file transfer protocol In the world of technology you can: Develop web pages using HTML and Java script. Master Microsoft software such as Word, and PowerPoint in order to build a variety of materials. Learn about hardware of a computer and understand why certain things function. Overview Computational Thinking involves understanding how to code web pages to look awesome and perform certain actions along with knowing certain computer hardware and knowing why they help computers function. Data Analysis and Visualization with MS Excel In CSE 3 we learned that excel is useful for much more designs than just graphing data. We can actually perform computations on it and save ourselves valuable time by plugging in equations that perform functions and calculate data for us. Excel is an extremely useful application to represent images of data using graphs as well! Presentation of Information with MS PowerPoint Desktop Publishing with MS Word MS Word is an extremely versatile application that allows users to do a large variety of things such as typing up an essay, formatting a resume, or even designing an article. Along with this, you can save your work and publish it on the internet by running HTML and inserting a link to your directory which contains your MS Word file! MS PowerPoint is also from Microsoft such as Word is and it’s most useful and main use is for presenting data or facts in a more organized manner by a slide show. Since we mastered excel in CSE 3, we used data that we created in Excel and projected it onto a PowerPoint then published it on the web with HTML. IDLE – Programming with Python Just like HTML is a programming language (hence the ending “L” which stands for Language”) there is other languages used for programming as well. In fact, there's tons of them just like there is for languages we speak. One of them being Python. Python is a special program that you run in order to create certain loops that will perform certain responses when a user types in responses. Overall, Python is a language that helps develop an interaction between user and computer. Dynamic Webpage Programming with JavaScript Although HTML creates a webpage, it doesn’t allow the page to perform any actions such as when your are playing an online game and are having to click between different responses that pop up from the page. In order to do those dynamic formats you need to use JavaScript, another language you learn in CSE 3. This is a more advanced version of just simply using HTML because it helps advance interaction between a page and a user. One thing we designed was a Blackjack game where were told if we won or lost based on the buttons we clicked.