A Journey Through a Bachelor of Information Technology Degree

    During my quest to obtain a Bachelor of Information Technology from Ashford University, my fourth class was CPT 200: Fundamentals of Programming Languages.  For that class, the programming language that is taught is Python 3.     On the first week of class, we were asked to create code that would ask a user to input several pieces of information about any specific employee.  We were to use the variables: employeeName, employeeSSN, employeePhone, employeeEmail, and employeeSalary.  After the data was inputted, it needed to be printed on the screen.  Below was what I turned in for Functionality 1:     During the second week of class, we were to read two chapters: Chapter 3: Types and Chapter 4: Branching.  These chapters introduced us to the different types of variables that can be used within Python as well as how to use branching in your scripts. For the second functionality, we were instructed to adjust ou...

     During our fourth week of class, we were asked to explain the importance of information and system security for individuals and organizations.      Keeping information secure is vital for any person or company.   If personal data is not secure, a person will have to worry about have portions of their identity potentially stolen.   If a company does not make sure that its data is secure, then they will have to worry about many different factors that will affect their customers, suppliers, employees, etc.   When examining information security, there are many different methods that can be used to gain access to data that would be otherwise secured.   In a previous assignment, we used the ping and tracert commands to determine the connectivity of different websites.   These commands can also be used in nefarious ways to attack personal or commercial technological infrastructure.   In addition to those two comma...