The Beginning of an IT career.

                  With the fast advancement of technology, the growth of IT jobs has increased at a rapid pace. The projected growth of computer and information technology occupations from 2021 to 2031 is 15 percent, higher that the average for all total occupations (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2022). This is huge opportunity for anyone who is looking to change to an IT career and for those already working in the field looking for advancement. This connects IT careers to the fundamentals of information technology being that mostly everything revolves around technology now. Some knowledge of computers and information technology is required and is sought-after by many employers (Herrity, 2023). This may even create more jobs by requiring teaching and on the job training of basic computer skills. This advancement and need for computer skills come from how much technology has changed the daily lives of huma...

            Cybersecurity is becoming one of the most important jobs the world today. This is due to the growing amounts of computer hacks and viruses being created with malicious intent. These hacks and viruses are being used to steal personal and organizational information and are even used to attack organization’s websites by overloading their servers with large numbers of useless access request called denial of service (DoS) (Vahid, 2019). The increasing threats of cyber-attacks have also increased the importance of improving system security both personally and professionally. Increasing system security will help prevent sensitive information from being stolen and could help prevent (DoS) from happening by removing the amount of computer beings used to send the large amount of access request.             Phishing is when scammers use email of text messages to mislead users into providing pers...

There are many ways that Information Technology and healthcare are connected. All nurses must be trained and must completely understand the computer system that the hospital uses. My wife is a travel nurse, so before ever working her new assignment she must learn the new system. I have seen her have to take 8 hours for up to two weeks both virtually and in a classroom setting. She has told me that every system for every hospital is different, and that complete knowledge of the systems are needed to perform daily work tasks. This system is used to monitor patients and communicate between departments of what is needed to treat patients. All medicine can only be obtained by through a computer, and it must be scanned directly to the patient. Being that computers are becoming a part of every aspect of life; it is important that the everyone have some experience with them. This is very important within the healthcare field being that most machines and medical equipment is ran by computers. ...

Packets are pieces of information that a computer uses to communicate with another computer over the internet. A packet first leaves the host computer and travels to router then modem. From the modem, the packets reach the Internet Service Provider (ISP) then starts its journey through the internet to the desired computer. Throughout the internet, the packet must pass through multiple other routers further and further away before reaching its destination. Once it had reached the destination, the receiving computer reads the packet and creates another packet to send back to the original computer which must travel in reverse to reach the original computer. The ping and traceroute results for google returned the faster results. The average roundtrip time for the 3 pings was 46ms while the traceroute roundtrip for each hop was about the same. I did experience a lot of time outs with the hops. When testing the vbreath.pl, an Australian website, the average ping time was 223ms and each hop...

          There are 4 main computer applications that we use on a daily basis to complete a wide range of tasks in all aspects of life. These applications can help use academically, professionally, and even personally by creating and organizing information. Some applications will be used more than others depending on the task needed to complete, but it is good to have a general understanding of all 4 apps being that some features are present throughout all the applications. Word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, and database applications are 4 different computer applications that are used to complete all types of tasks needed in all aspects of life.             Each application had completely different functions. Word processor is the most common application which is used to create formatted text (Vahid, 2019). This is good for typing essays, memos, and other long text items that would need to be ed...

            The app that I choose for this discussion is Instacart. Instacart is a grocery delivery service that was founded by Apoorva Mehta and Max Mullen in 2012 (Juggernaut, 2015). I use this app both as a website and a mobile app. This app can also be used to purchase other household goods from convenient stores and pharmacies. These goods and groceries are normally delivered to a home of whoever ordered the goods or someone else’s home for a gift or a favor for a small fee. The delivery driver waits for an order to appear in the app and then goes to the store to pick up that order to be delivered to the buyer. At certain stores, the buyer can order the product and pick it up themselves without even getting out of the car. The app is very easy to use. You first setup an account and add any payment information. After selecting which store to shop at, you begin adding goods to the cart by searching or browsing the inventory for items. The apps ...

                 There are many different techniques that humans can program computers. Each technique may use a different forms of programming language, a language that is used by programmers to communicate with computers (ComputerScience.org, 2022). These different techniques could consist of simply forms or highly complex forms of programming language which can be used to perform more complex programming tasks. Scratch is a simply, drag and drop program that I used to create a short clip. After viewing some tutorials and playing around with the program, Scratch became an easy program to use with many different features available to create many different outcomes.             When I first started using Scratch, I had to difficulties figuring out where to start. This is an open-ended program that allows for a wide range of things to create. I watched some tutorials and finally beg...