Chapter 1. Introduction to Computers and the Internet
The renaissance of interest in the web that we call Web 2.0 has reached the mainstream. | ||
| --Tim O’Reilly | ||
Billions of queries stream across the servers of these Internet services—the aggregate thoughtstream of humankind, online. | ||
| --John Battelle, The Search | ||
People are using the web to build things they have not built or written or drawn or communicated anywhere else. | ||
| --Tim Berners-Lee | ||
Some people take what we contribute and extend it and contribute it back [to Ruby on Rails]. That’s really the basic open source success story. | ||
| --David Heinemeier Hansson, interviewed by Chris Karr at www.Chicagoist.com | ||
OBJECTIVES
In this chapter you will learn:
Basic computing concepts.
The different types of programming ...
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