Keeping Up Through Fluency
v Fluency is designed to teach you the fundamentals,
mostly by hands-on practice
o Skills -- Email with PINE, Web browsing with Netscape, MS
Word, MS Excel, MS Access and work with UW databases,
Dr. Solomon virus protection ...
o Concepts -- workings of computer, networks, encryption,
digital encoding, programming and algorithmic thinking,
effective searching ...
o Capabilities -- logical reasoning, debugging, testing, thinking
abstractly about technology, managing complexity …
v This knowledge should be useful throughout college
and throughout life