11/3/2020
The inclusion of IT careers is intertwined with computer science because without people working on computers or testing technology it cannot evolve. People who seek careers within the IT field can find multiple options for the specialty he or she is searching for. The IT career field began before computers but it truly began with the coming of advanced technology. Information Technology careers began with engineers and the creation of switchboards. Switchboards, in the beginning, were the size of a room with individual people manually operating the switches (Vahid & Lysecky, 2017). From there as technology advanced the focus became to keep evolving that same technology. Now engineers who work on the hardware of computers have created switches so small that they are now automatic. Now, people can work in the Information Technology field and be Web Designers, Software Developers or Security Analysts.
The major components that IT careers use are computer software, networking, and computer hardware the RAM. First computer software is a major component to understand and use when working with computers. If you are a Web Developer/Designer that person has to use multiple programs to create and maintain that web page. The programs these jobs have to work with are Java or Python and they have to have a lot of RAM because they are going to be running multiple programs at once. Within the modern era, networking is just as important because it takes a team to get a computer or a program to run smoothly not just one person. Hosting individual servers or being in charge of maintaining multiple servers for users is important within IT careers
For this topic, I will be focusing on the IT career field of Web Designer/Developers and what types of programming languages and execution methods they use. The major programming languages that Web Designers have to use is HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (Smith, 2019). HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language which uses a programming language to put content on a web page and give it structure. CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets which tells the browser how to format and style the HTML. While both of these languages are common for Web Designers to use if JavaScript is used then the programmer has an advantage. Using JavaScript allows the programmer to make static objects into interactive objects, like when using social media updates automatically when a post is sent up.
References
Stevens, E. (2020). How to become a web developer - Everything you need to know. Retrieved from
https://careerfoundry.com/en/blog/web-development/what-does-it-take-to-become-a-web-developer-everything-you-need-to-know-before-getting-started/
Vahid, F., & Lysecky, S. (2017). Computing Technology for all. Retrieved from
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