An IT professional who specializes in application management is responsible for overseeing and maintaining the various software applications used within an organization. This role is critical for ensuring that applications run smoothly, are up to date, and meet the needs of the business. Overall, the role of an application management specialist is critical for ensuring…
AS your applications become more complicated, you can expect your decisions to become more complicated. There are three ways this can happen. First, is a sequence of conditions, checking against the same variable. So in our last decision example, we mentioned how we cannot ask “What color is the shirt?” However, we might ask: “Is…
Conditional statements allow us to choose to run a portion of code, or not. It is dependent upon what they condition is, and if it is met. Conditions need resolved down to a boolean answer. That is one that can be described as a yes/no, or true/false, style of answer. Therefore “Is the shirt blue?”…
Desktop application developers are responsible for creating software that run on desktop operating systems (OS) such as Windows, macOS, and Linux. (These are the three main desktop OSes.) Their work involves designing, developing, testing, and maintaining applications that offer a user-friendly interface and perform specific tasks. That software may focus on being completely self-contained, and…
A help desk technician, also known as a technical support specialist or help desk support analyst, plays a crucial role in providing technical assistance and support to end-users or customers. They are often considered a Tier-1 level support, or the first level of support that you will get when you call/email/web form in for help….
Some problems are very complex. Some can be quiet simple. Regardless, we often need to define our solution, as part of our problem solving steps, in order to make sure our solution will work. A flowchart is a graphical way to show the logic of an algorithm. In programming, we often talk about algorithms, but…
Software Engineering and Information Technology are two different topics, as we’ve talked about it before. While they both use computers, how they use them, and what you will do on a daily basis, will be very different. We’ve already looked at some of the similarities and differences both from a professional level, and academically. However,…
It may seem a little weird to be talking career paths your first term in college, however, there is a lot of reasons to. If you think back upon your high school graduation, a lot of people feel like, “How can I be here already? I just started high school yesterday.” This is a common…
