A Journey Through a Bachelor of Information Technology Degree

            In order to fully understand the fundamentals of information technology, you must first build a solid foundation by learning where computers came from and why they were originally invented.   The history and future of computers has been a very long and fascinating journey.   Britannica.com defines a computer as “An apparatus that performs routine calculations automatically” (Pottenger & Hemmendinger, 2018 ).   It is thought that computers were first conceptualized around the 1400s by Leonardo da Vinci.   By the late 1800s, computers were starting to be invented to help calculate census data.   Once the first computer was built, computing technology grew exponentially at a steady pace.   The late 1900s saw the rise of personal computing and the 2000s saw the advent of the mobile computer .   With each evolution of computer technology, more and more of the science fiction dreams of the past are becoming technological realizations of the future.             Many h

     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 commands, there are many other different ways to attack an information net

During the fourth week of our class we were directed to choose a specific industry and describe the functions of computers for that industry. I chose the Corporate Office as my industry.   Corporate computing does not really change much from industry to industry and so you can classify the Corporate Office as its own industry.   In each corporate office, there are usually many different types of computers that are necessary for the business to maintain functionality and profit.   On the low end of the spectrum, a corporate office has entry-level workers that use desktop PCs to complete the tasks for their jobs.   The function of these computers are mostly for document editing and creation.   In the finance department, the workers are using Microsoft Excel on their Windows PCs to manipulate earnings statements, customer invoices, materials invoices, etc.   The sales teams use CRM tools to document leads and track inventories.   The HR team has access to the payroll software, recrui