0.2 Book Organization and Structure

This book is organized by units and chapters. There are five main units:

1. Concepts (Systems in organizations, AI, hardware and networking, cybersecurity)

2. Database (Organizational information, ERDs, SQL)

3. Development (Principles of programming taught through spreadsheet automation)

4. Analytics (Statistics, optimization, analytics, visualization)

5. Web (HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, GitHub)

Each unit includes several chapters. Some chapters include reading quizzes and/or homework assignments. Each unit concludes with a practical project and a conceptual "Big Quiz." Each type of assessment is explained below:

1. Reading Quiz: Short conceptual quizzes on the readings. Small point values. Applied concepts, but not applied skills (i.e., no coding required).

2. Homework: Small applied exercises usually graded via short response fill-in-the-blank quizzes to see if you completed the exercise correctly.

3. Project: Large applied exercises. Like homework assignments, but bigger.

4. Big Quiz: Large conceptual quizzes (25 questions drawn randomly from a question bank). These do not require writing code, though understanding the technical skills of the unit will greatly aid performance.