Preface
Why does this textbook exist? At Northern Kentucky University, we have offered a 4-year bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Technology since 2004. This program, like the field, continues to evolve. In 2011, we added a breadth-first introductory course to our program. The course’s role is to introduce students to many of the concepts that they would see throughout their IT studies and into their career: computer organization and hardware, Windows and Linux operating systems, system administration duties, scripting, computer networks, regular expressions, binary numbers, the Bash shell in Linux and DOS, managing processes and services, computer security, and careers in IT.
As I was asked to develop this course, I began looking for ...
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