1. Introduction to Computers and the Internet
People are using the web to build things they have not built or written or drawn or communicated anywhere else.
—Tim Berners-Lee
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
—Anne Frank
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
—John F. Kennedy
Objectives
In this chapter you’ll learn:
• Computer hardware, software and Internet basics.
• The evolution of the Internet and the World Wide Web.
• How HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript are improving web-application development.
• The data hierarchy.
• The different types of programming languages.
• Object-technology concepts.
• And you’ll see demos of interesting and fun Internet applications you can ...
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