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We did someprogramming too.I Communication, anything to do withTelecommunications?P No, it's, er, language skills. How to getyour point over. How to make apresentation. We also had Maths. I'vealways liked Maths.I Was there a practical component in thecourse?P Yes, we had to assemble computers.I And how small were the componentsyou started with? Was it down to thelevel of the motherboard, for example?P Yes, we had to link the motherboardand the CPU and all the othercomponents of a computer and make itrun.PART 2I How up to date did you feel the coursewas?P I always felt it was a bit behind currentdevelopments.I That question really relates to my nextone.
Is there anything that you wouldadd to or take away from the course?P Erm, I would change the programmingcomponent. We did Pascal. That's onereason I didn't want to continue withprogramming because you never sawany jobs which asked for Pascal. Wedid COBOL also but that was quite oldtoo and even the banks were stoppingusing it. A more up to date languagelike C++ would've been better. And Iwould add work experience. I alwaysfelt they should have given some sortof work experience. I know somecolleges do.I Erm, that would be a great thingbecause most students have paperqualifications and no practicalexperience.P I think that even if it was just summerwork it would be really useful.Employers are looking forqualifications and experience.I Which of the subjects you studied haveyou found most useful in your work?P Erm, Learning Access. I've had to doIPIPdatabase designs for a couple ofcustomers.
Systems Building as well.I've had to go in and replacecomponents for customers and we'vehad to build computers from scratch.Last Christmas I had to assemble fiftyin a four week period.Hm! What about Communication? I'msure a lot of students would seeCommunication and say that's reallythe least important thing in the course.Oh, I've found it very useful. I have togo to customers I've never met beforeand put my points across.
It's beenhelpful too in going for job interviews.Just getting confidence in presentingyourself.Did they give you any practice inexplaining things to non-specialists? Insimple, non-technical ways to users?Erm, what you had to do in front of avideo camera, was to choose a subjectand, erm, break it down so thateveryone could understand it.
Eventhough your classmates were alltechnically-minded, you had to make itso that the teacher could understandit. The teacher who was marking it hadto understand. If she didn't, shewouldn't pass you.PART 3I Now that the course is over, how doyou keep up?P That's the difficult thing. You get a lotfrom work when you're thrown intosituations you don't know much about.You have to learn fast.I Uhum.P I've noticed a few times when I've goneto customers who want somethingfixed that I don't know about that Ilearn really fast.I So you're teaching yourself.P Yes. You have to do this from booksand manuals and by reading the PCmagazines.P Did the college give you any advice onthe best magazines to read?P No.I So how did you get that information?How did you know where to look forhelp?P There was one lecturer.
He used towork for a chip company. Even thecollege technical staff used to ask himfor advice. He gave us some advice onwhere to look. The magazinesthemselves often recommend books tobuy. The Internet's good. You go to theMicrosoft websites and themanufacturers' websites also help.That's not something the college gaveyou.
They didn't say, er, 'Here are auseful set of Web addresses'?No. There was a set book on supportwhich was useful but it was full ofmistakes so you had to check itagainst other books to make sure whatwas right.OK. One last question. Would you evergo back to college?Yes, I'd like to do my degree some timebut it's getting the time and the moneyto do this.UNIT 10Interview:Computing Support OfficerPART 1Clive Erm, I've got a whole lot of files in afolder which I call 'Contract' which hasjust grown over the years so, er, if I gointo it and let you see it...
these are allWord files. Each time a new contracthas come along, I've simply added itthere and it's got the label sometimesof the client, sometimes it's got acountry label. It's got so enormous thatI'm, er, it's now taking time to findthings. What I want to do is to createsubfolders for certain countries wherewe have a lot of clients.Barbara OKC Starting with Japan, for example, so Iwant to have Contract as the mainheading, if you like, and I want to beable to have subfolders ...B Underneath there ...C ... underneath, certainly for Japan,Italy, Finland and Hungary, and theremay be others.PART 2B OK.
So the way I'll do it is to gothrough Windows Explorer.C So, OK, so how do I get into WindowsExplorer?B So let's click on Start on your statusbar. The Start button and ...C Er, sorry, where are we?B If you bring your cursor down to thevery bottom. You see that little statusbar that comes up.C Oh, right. OK.B And there should be a WindowsExplorer option ...
And you don't haveone!C Erm, how odd.B OK. Not a problem though. Instead of198LISTENING SCRIPTclicking on Programs, you can click onRun on your Start menu and just typein the word Explorer and hit...C In this box? Just Explore.B Explorer. And hit OK. And that shouldlaunch it.C Oh, yeh.B OK. This is Windows Explorer and ifyou'll notice next to where it saysWindows in your C drive there's a littleminus sign.C Right...B If you click on that, that'll just compactyour C drive.C Single click?B Yes. And that just gets it out of the wayso now we can see all of our drives.C Right...B And you store everything on DIRDATA?Is that right?C Yes.B So, right next to your C drive there's alittle plus sign. If you click on that.C What... ? OK ...B That opens up and shows you all yourfolders.C Why are ...
Does the plus indicate thatthere are other folders?B Yes. If there were no other folders inthere you wouldn't have a little boxthere. You'd just have the one foldername whatever it was.C And what's the minus? Is that justopen and close?B Yes, basically. So expand and contract.C OK...B And you're storing them in Word, areyou?C Yes.B So click on the little plus sign next tothe Word folder. And that shows you allyour folders in Word.C RightB And now you want your Contract folder.So we can click once on Contract andyou'll notice on the right hand side itshows us all the files we have withinthat folder.C Right...B So what we can do now is...
in ourExplorer window click on File on themenu bar and click on the word Newon the top.C Uhuh, right...B And that will bring us another little boxup ... And click on Folder. And that'sgoing to create a subfolder in Contractbecause we had Contract highlighted.C Ah, OK...B And now we can give it a new name. Itgives a default name of New Folderand we want to type in what we wantto actually call it.C So within ...
where it says New Folder, Iremove that and I put in whatever thename of the new folder is.B Yes, you can delete that.C So let's put in the new name 'Japan'and...B You can either hit Enter or just clickoutside the box. OK and is that theonly folder you want to create?C No, I'm going to create Italy, Finlandand Hungary.B OK, so we want to make sure that wehave Contract highlighted.
Right nowJapan remains highlighted and if youclicked File, New and Folder now itwould create a folder in Japan.C Ah, so it would create a sub-subfolder?B Right...C OK...B So you just need to click on Contract tomake sure it's highlighted and go Fileand there you are.C So it's the same again. File, New,Folder.PART 3C OK. Now if I want to start moving intothat sub-folder some of these files howdo I do that?B Well how I would do it is ...
You'llnotice on the left hand ... on the lefthand side where it's showing you allyour folders ... that Contract now has alittle plus sign next to it ...C Right...B ... because we've created sub-folderswithin Contract.C Uhuh...B So if you click on the little plus signnext to your Contract folder ...C Right...B ... it shows you your two sub-folders inthere.C Oh, yeh. OK. So Hungary and Japan.B And on your right hand side you're stilllooking at all of your files that arewithin Contract.C Right...B So now you can actually click on one ofthose files, hold your mouse buttondown, and drag it over to the subfolder ...C OK...B ... and that will drop it into the subfolder.C This is one?B Yeh. Bring it over and it'll highlight thesub-folders.C Just over the top of Japan?B Yes, because Japan is highlighted nowthat's telling you that's where it's goingto go.C So just like that.
As soon as it'shighlighted that's it?B Yeh. So if you click on to the Japanfolder on the left you'll notice on theCBCBCBCBright it shows you your file there.Oh, right. How do I go back?Click on Contract again on the left.OK. And that's it.Yeh. And if you actually drag anythingover there and you realise you'vedragged it to the wrong place, andyou're not sure if you dragged it to theright place, there is an Undo. UnderEdit on the menu bar.Right...So that's a handy tool. Sometimes youdrag something and then your handtwitches and you never know...Right.
I think I can do it.OK.UNIT 13The World Wide WebTo find the webpage you want, you haveto click on a webpage hyperlink or enter aURL, a Uniform Resource Locator into abrowser. The URL is the address of thepage. When you do that, the browsersends the URL to a DNS server.The DNS server is the Domain NameServer.
It uses a look-up table to find theIP address of the Web server referred toin the URL. The IP address is a unique,32-bit, set of numbers. Erm, everycomputer on the Web has its own IPaddress.Once the DNS server has found the IPaddress, it sends it back to the browser.The browser then uses this IP addressto send a request to the Web server. Therequest is sent as a series of separatedata packets which include both the IPaddress of the Web server and the IPaddress of the browser computer. Thesedata packets are first sent to a routercomputer, which uses the IP address ofthe Web server to determine the bestavailable route for each packet.The packets are passed from router torouter until they reach the Web server.They may travel by different routes beforereaching the server.As the individual packets reach theWeb server, they're put back togetheragain.The Web server now services therequest by sending the requestedwebpage back to the browser computer.Again it travels as a series of separatedata packets from router to router.
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