Client-server computing
the basis of much of what we will be doing
We want to be sure we grasp the relationship of clients to servers, and have a shared vocabulary of terms.
Client-server computing
is the interaction between two programs when they communicate across a network. A program at one site sends a request to a program at another site and awaits a response.
The requesting program is the client.
Assuming we are using our laptops as a client, we might want to know how laptops work.
The program satisfying the request is the server.
Assuming we want to retrieve something from a server over the web, we might want to know how web servers work.
client-server interaction is the basis of distributed computing
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baseline understandings about the tools we will be using
How PCs work
Advice on how to deal with problems as they come up
- personal computer maintenance Windows OS
- personal computer maintenance Mac OS
- personal computer maintenance Linux OS
- Basic Computer Security from ITS
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Terminology
Is memory the same thing as storage? [notice how dated the details are in this storage article]
What are operating systems? We are familiar with Windows and Apple on our clients, but Linux and Android are starting to become challengers and Google is entering the market as well
What are some of the others? Wikipedia lists lots and lots.
What does open source mean?
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one simple tool that we will use a lot
Learn how to use the screen capture tool. If you use a Mac, there are several keyboard combinations that can be used to take screenshots in Mac OS X
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