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=About this course materials=
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==Course material reading companions==
If you are using this course material as part of an actual course (e.g. at university), then please refer to the course literature list provided by the teachers.

Below we list some literature that we recommend as readings for this course material to complement the material found on this wiki.
==Books==
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!style="text-align:left; vertical-align: top;"|ISBN 10
!style="text-align:left; vertical-align: top;"|ISBN 13
!style="text-align:left; vertical-align: top;"|Year/edition
!style="text-align:left; vertical-align: top;"|Price (circa)
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|style="vertical-align: top;"|Understanding the Digital World:<br>
What You Need to Know about<br>Computers, the Internet, Privacy, and Security
|style="vertical-align: top;"|Brian W. Kernighan
|style="vertical-align: top;"|PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
|style="vertical-align: top;"|n/a
|style="vertical-align: top;"|9780691176543
|style="vertical-align: top;"|2017
|style="vertical-align: top;"|230 SEK
|style="vertical-align: top;"|256
|style="vertical-align: top;"|Newer edition of ''D is for Digital''<br>below.<br>Same content,<br>Pick one of them.
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|style="vertical-align: top;"|D Is for Digital:<br>
What a Well-Informed Person Should Know about<br>
Computers and Communications
|style="vertical-align: top;"|Brian W. Kernighan
|style="vertical-align: top;"|CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
|style="vertical-align: top;"|n/a
|style="vertical-align: top;"|9781463733896
|style="vertical-align: top;"|2011
|style="vertical-align: top;"|200 SEK
|style="vertical-align: top;"|238
|style="vertical-align: top;"|Covers most of this course material's topics<br>Older version of<br>''Understanding...'' above.<br>Pick one of them.
|-
|style="vertical-align: top;"|Datorkunskap för IT-studenter:<br>
Vad varje student behöver veta för att klara IT-studier (Swedish compendium)
|style="vertical-align: top;"|Rikard Fröberg and Henrik Sandklef
|style="vertical-align: top;"|Juneday
|style="vertical-align: top;"|n/a
|style="vertical-align: top;"|n/a
|style="vertical-align: top;"|2018-2019
|style="vertical-align: top;"|Free for students
|style="vertical-align: top;"|100
|style="vertical-align: top;"|Covers a lot of this course material's topics
|-
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=The digital landscape=
[[File:Minecraft-1106252 1280.jpg|200px|thumb|right|The digital landscape<br>Pixabay license: https://pixabay.com/service/license/ <br>Source: https://pixabay.com/illustrations/minecraft-video-game-blocks-block-1106252/]]You may have heard the term ''Digital landscape''. We have no idea what that means, but we thought we'd share the image we get whenever we hear the term. This course material is less about buzzwords from academia and more about the terms used when doing IT, in the sense of working with computers, programming, understanding how data is represented (even a landscape can be represented digitally, like a picture or image of a landscape) etc.

[https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/landscape Oxford] defines ''Landscape'' as follows

<blockquote>
All the visible features of an area of land, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.

1.1 A picture representing an area of countryside.

1.2 (mass noun) The genre of landscape painting.

1.3 The distinctive features of a sphere of activity.
</blockquote>

The above definition didn't quite help the authors of this wiki to understand what ''digital landscape'' may mean, but we guess that it is the latter definition, the distinctive features of a sphere of activity, where the sphere of activity then must be ''digital''. Perhaps it means ''digital activities''? But that begs the question, what is a ''digital activity''?

Hopefully, you will learn about [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitization digitalization]] throughout this course material. It's probably best that we now also define what we mean by ''digitalization'' (sometimes: ''Digitization''). We're not talking about a trend in society, but rather the activity of converting information into a computer-readable format (organizing the information in bits - binary numbers).

=Links=
==Video lecture slides and videos==
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==Where to go next==
The next page is [[ITIC:Setting_up_your_environment|Setting_up_your_environment]].

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