Skills: none Concepts: application development in the batch processing, timesharing, personal computer and Internet eras This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. The democratization of application development
Where does this topic fit? Internet concepts – Applications – Technology – Implications Internet skills – Application development – Content creation – User skills
Batch processing and time sharing Personal computer Internet Lowering the application development bar
Batch processing and time sharing eras
PC era UsersIT department
What kinds of apps did PC users develop? Hint:
Presentations
Word processing and page layout
Spreadsheets
Databases
On the Internet, everyone is an application developer
Internet era
Consumerization of IT
Summary Batch processing and time sharing Personal computer Internet
Self-study questions What are some of the application development tools that were introduced when personal computers became available? Which Internet services have you used to build applications? Find an Internet service that helps users build applications and build a test application.
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