Tools for Information Literacy ① Clients
Client-server computing
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.
It 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.
A client-server network is a computing model in which multiple clients connect to a central server to access resources, such as files, applications, and data. The server acts as a central hub, managing and providing services to the connected clients. [Lenovo Glossary of Terms]
- Baseline understandings about the tools we will be using
- Advice on how to deal with problems as they come up
- Basic Computer Security from ITS
- Terminology
-
It's good to be cognizant of the relationship of memory to storage, and the specific meaning of each term.
For example, what is RAM? (in more detail) -
What are operating systems?
We are familiar with Windows and Apple on our clients, but
Linux
and
Android
are starting to become challengers.
Wikipedia lists lots and lots of operating systems.