REVIEW OF BASIC COMPUTER APPLICATIONS AND INTERNET PRINCIPLES

PHARMACY INFORMATICS SLU-SNS-DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACY 2013

WHAT IS A COMPUTER?
A machine that performs tasks, such as calculations or electronic communication, under the control of a set of instructions called a program.
An electronic device that executes the instructions in a program.

FUNCTIONS: IPOS (Input Processing Cycle)

WHAT MAKES COMPUTERS POWERFUL?

Speed: A computer can do billions of actions per second. Reliability: Failures are usually due to human error, one way or another. Storage: A computer can keep huge amounts of data.

BASIC COMPUTER APPLICATIONS

HW: KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS

WHAT IS THE INTERNET?

Internet is a global network connecting millions of computers.

INTERNET HISTORY MILESTONES

1969 ARPANET R&D Project

1983 DOD Mandated Adoption of TCP/IP

1985 NSFNET founded by The National Science Foundation

1993 Web Browser Mosaic invented by Mark Andreesen

ARPANET
1974 1983 Vinton Cerf ARPANET Split into and Robert Kahn ARPANET and MILNET Initiated TCP/IP

INTERNET
1991 World Wide Web Released by Tim-Berners Lee

BROWSERS

Software application for retrieving, presenting and traversing information resources on the WWW

TOOLBAR

UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR (URL)

Each page of information on the web has a unique address called the URL at which it can be found

http://faculty.slu.edu.ph/huang/lecture1.html

The document can be obtained using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

Host Name The Name of Web Server

Path to the Web Page

File Name

Denotes that the File is Written in HTML HyperText Markup Language