| Information Technology | Technology and employment based on information, how it is processed, and kept secure. |
| Personal Computers | The computer systems that are becoming domesticated for home use. |
| Needs Assessment | An analysis that studies the needs of a specific group, presents the results in a written statement detailing those needs, and identifies the actions required to fulfill these needs. |
| Operating Systems | The systems that are used to mediate information from the computer to the user. |
| High Level Language versus Machine Language | High Level language is a computer language that is able to be easily read by humans, Machine Language would be like Binary, which is almost impossible to read unless deciphered. |
| Graphic User Interface (GUI) | The type of OS that uses graphics to represent the system directories and such. |
| Computer Network | When two or more computers are connected to each other. |
| WWW versus Internet | WWW uses http to communicate while the Internet uses TCP\IP. |
| TCP\IP | Transmission Control Protocol \ Internet Protocol |
| Ethernet/Fast Ethernet | Ethernet runs at 10 megabytes a second, Fast Ethernet runs at 100
megabytes a second. |
| Bandwidths and Speed | Bandwidth is the amount of information that can be sent over a line all at once, so the more bandwidth, the more information gets across faster. |
| ISP (internet service providers) | The company which you connect to the internet through. |
| Streaming Video | A type of compressed frames that are sent one by one over the internet to be viewed at time of arrival, making a video. |
| MPG | A type of file that is used to pictures and video. Moving Pictures Expert Group. |
| AVI | An AVI file is a sound and motion picture file that conforms to the Microsoft Windows Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF) specification. Has .avi on the end of the file. |
| Virtual Environments | An environment created and maintained by a computer. |
| Visual Basic | A graphical programming language made my Microsoft. |
| C++ | C++ is a general-purpose programming language with a bias towards systems programming. |
| Batch Files | A batch program contains a sequence of operating-system commands, including parameters and operators supported by the batch command language. In MS-DOS, a batch file has a BAT extension. |
| Object Oriented Programming | Programming that supports object technology. It is a form of modular programming with formal rules that allow pieces of software to be reused and interchanged between programs. |
| Browser | A visual program that allows you to access and send information over the World Wide Web and the Internet. |
| HTML | Hypertext Markup Language. The language used to make webpages. |
| Static Web Page | A webpage that doesn�t have any interactive feature. A read-only webpage you
could say. |
| Interactive Web Page | A web page that you can interact with by clicking on links. |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator. The World Wide Web location of a webpage. |
