As was mentioned earlier, creating a LinkedIn Account is different from other social media accounts. Where it’s acceptable, and normal, on Facebook or Instagram to have a photo of you out surfing, or at a party, that tends to be looked down on in LinkedIn. Instead, you want to focus on making yourself look as…
Most people are familiar with social media. We use it keep in touch with friends and family, (humble) brag about our accomplishments, or even outright boast about really cool travels. There are different types of social media for different things. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc, all have their own niches and uses. LinkedIn is one of…
In part 1 of Using an OS, we looked at user management, basic security, and file explorer. While Windows has made it easier to store files logically, it is still up to the user. Too often I’ve seen people with hundreds of files on their desktop. Often there, just “temporarily” until they no longer need…
Earlier we talked about issues with storing things, like a phone number as a number, due to overflow and accuracy issues. So, we’re going to institute a general rule of programming. Only store something in a number when you are planning to, or could, perform mathematical operations on that number. So for example, you have…
Most modern languages have some built in complex data types that you can use. Characters and Strings For example most languages have the ability to work with strings and characters. In most languages a character is a single byte or two bytes in size, and can represent a letter, number, or special character like a…
Before we dive into studying all about the OS, we want to do a quick dive into an OS, so we can see some of the topics we’ll be covering. In doing so, you might learn a little more about one of the most over looked applications that everyone has to use. Previously, we looked…
At the highest level, the operating system (OS) is a piece of software that is there to manage all of the software and hardware of the computer. It is not generally considered to be a single program, but a series of programs and utilities that can make this happen. Most of the time, in a…
Currently there are only about 5 different versions of Operating Systems, with several sub-versions. They are: Windows MacOS iOS Android Unix/Linux Now, technically Unix/Linux are different, and there are variations of these, but fundamentally at a high level they are the same. There are some others out there, but they are rare and often on…
