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This text covers all introductory IT concepts topics and is appropriate for a full semester course, with or without a lab component. Designed to accommodate the computer competency needs of students from a broad spectrum of disciplines and interests, this best-selling text provides an exceptionally well-illustrated overview of computing concepts and IT applications-all in a format that allows instructors the flexibility to meet their courses' education objectives. It strikes a good balance between efficiency of presentation and content that holds students' interest and invites learning. Only topics critical to general information technology competency are covered in order to provide the breadth of topics necessary to the understanding that is applicable today and in the future.