The Beginning of an IT career.

 If you have new to programming and using the Java compiler. I am here to help!!! To download Java, use the following link:   The Java™ Tutorials (oracle.com)  ( This link provides step by step instructions on installing Java and the code editor  NetBeans IDE.) If you are like me, you like to use applications that you are comfortable with. I have become very comfortable with using the code editor Notepad++. It made writing code for the Python compiler easy for me.  To download Notepad++, use the following link:   Notepad++ (notepad-plus-plus.org) For a tutorial of how to set up Notepad++ to run Java, use the following link:   How to Compile and Run Java Programs Using Notepad++ (wikihow.com) There are many other code editors available. I recommend that you try a few out and decide which one works best for you. Now that you have the programs you need, we must understand some logic behind writing code. Object-Oriented Programming is one type of...

            As I navigate through my academic IT journey, I have grown confident in my choice to pursue this dream. I have learned so many things so far and I am excited to see how much more I can learn. I just finished learning about operating system theory. Operating systems have many different features. They provide a platform for running applications and offer a platform for application development. These applications vary in many ways and allow users to complete a variety of tasks. OS handles memory management and CPU scheduling. Memory management is done by managing which part of memory is being used, deciding which processes to move to and from memory, and allocation and deallocating memory space among other things. Another feature of the operating system involves protecting the system from internal and external threats. There are multiple levels of protection and security, and the operating system has features to control al...

                  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...