Monday, November 9, 2020

Nov 09, 2020
Careers in information technology have so much potential for growth as well as the possibility to earn a high income. I used to have a career working downtown, and I hated the commute. I would sit at my desk and dream of a job where I could sit at home and work in my pajamas. I would wish for a job that did not require me to literally get my feet wet...
Nov 09, 2020
In the film Hackers (Softley, 1995) the characters used A denial of service (DoS) attack to distract the IT specialist during the final virtual battle scene. The characters had hackers all over the world unite to send ping requests and overload the system. The servers were overloaded. The Hackers used these pings as a distraction to upload viruses....
Nov 09, 2020
 The educational industry would not be able to function during this pandemic without computers. Not only do teachers and students require computers to learn safely at home, these computes must have updated technologies to enable learning.  I work in customer service for an online learning platform. I get calls from teachers, administration,...
Nov 09, 2020
 While running the ping and traceroute commands it was simple, due to the directions given. They were so easy to follow. I have never run a traceroute before, but this was remarkably interesting. The internet communicates with billions of other computers. Every computer has an IP address and creates internet packets. The packets include...

Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Oct 28, 2020
Computer applications allow a user to input information. Word Processors and presentations will let users format fonts and spacing as well as add pictures. Presentations have the capability for animations and slide transitions. Spreadsheets and databases let users create organized information. Spreadsheets have options to develop and execute formulas,...
Oct 28, 2020
Tik Tok is video sharing application (app) that allows users to upload short videos of less than 60 seconds for other viewers to see. This app allows users with over 1000 followers to live stream and has social media features. The features include commenting and allowing users to like and send videos within the app as well as outside the app. It...

Sunday, October 25, 2020

Oct 25, 2020
When creating the Scratch game “Jellyfish Bubbletime”, there was a lot to learn. Please see the game created with Scratch at this website: Jellyfish Bubbletime.  It was interesting to see the way other people worked out the coding. I watched a video that that a child made, and based my game off of his work (Kids Coding Playground, 2020)....