Kategoria BISAC: Computers >> Computer Literacy

Data visualization is an efficient and effective medium for communicating large amounts of information, but the design process can often seem like an unexplainable creative endeavor. This concise book aims to demystify the design process by showing you how to use a linear decision-making process to encode your information visually.

Delve into different kinds of visualization, including infographics and visual art, and explore the influences at work in each one. Then learn how to apply these concepts to your design process.

• Learn data visualization classifications,...

Inside this book, you will find all of the new features of OS X Lion explained, exposed, and uncovered. It's filled with...

There is still great uncertainty in the teaching profession regarding the effective delivery of ICT. This introductory book provides both trainee and practising teachers with a clear understanding of the ICT National Curriculum and how to teach it.

Combining extensive practical advice with a critical discussion of the key theoretical issues, the book will help teachers develop their pupil's true ICT capability through clear explanations of the Programmes of Study, full guidance on using QCA Scheme of Work, different and creative ideas for delivering the ICT National...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of Current Trends in Web Engineering, ICWE Workshops 2015 which was held in June 2015 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The 16 revised full papers were selected form 23 submissions and cover topics on natural language processing for informal text, pervasive Web technologies, trends and challenges, and mining in the social Web.

Vim is a fast and efficient text editor that will make you a faster and more efficient developer. It's available on almost every OS, and if you master the techniques in this book, you'll never need another text editor. In more than 120 Vim tips, you'll quickly learn the editor's core functionality and tackle your trickiest editing and writing tasks. This beloved bestseller has been revised and updated to Vim 7.4 and includes three brand-new tips and five fully revised tips.

A highly configurable, cross-platform text editor, Vim is a serious tool for programmers, web developers,...

• How to get up and...

With its roots in computer science, linked data is unfamiliar territory for many library cataloguers. But since the origins of MARC nearly 50 years ago, the value of machine-readable library records has only grown. Today linked data is essential for sharing library collections on the open web, especially the digital cultural heritage in the collections of libraries, archives, and museums. This book gathers a stellar list of contributors to help readers understand linked data concepts by examining practice and projects based in familiar concepts like authority control. Topped by an...

This book explores the influence of the coded architectures of digital platforms, together with the social factors in which digital practices are embedded, to map out the complex ways that young people experience the digital context. Focusing on the notion of critical digital literacies, it tackles a number of key questions, including: How can digital media enhance or constrain identity representation and communication? What are young people's critical understandings of digital media, how did they develop them, and in whose interests do they work? Drawing on a variety of sociocultural and...

This book explores the influence of the coded architectures of digital platforms, together with the social factors in which digital practices are embedded, to map out the complex ways that young people experience the digital context. Focusing on the notion of critical digital literacies, it tackles a number of key questions, including: How can digital media enhance or constrain identity representation and communication? What are young people's critical understandings of digital media, how did they develop them, and in whose interests do they work? Drawing on a variety of sociocultural and...