After completing Computing Concepts: Messages, the user should be able to:

	Define the fourth component of telecommunications
	Describe some common data codes
	Explain data transmission structures
	Identify message protocols
	Use the INW to communicate
	Describe the cost of using the INW
	Identify aspects of telecommunications history

Coding Systems

	The fourth component
	Data codes

Data Transmission Structures

Data transmission structures

Message Protocols

Protocols

Using the INW

	Practice communicating with the INW
	Cost of INW

Communications History

Past and present

This course has the following features:

	A glossary
	A Skill Assessment

	Computing Concepts: Types of Security (COMC01)
	Computing Concepts: Security Risks (COMC02)
	Computing Concepts: Database Basics (COMC03)
	Computing Concepts: Selecting Databases (COMC04)
	Computing Concepts: Data Processing (COMC05)
	Computing Concepts: Managing Data (COMC06)
	Computing Concepts: Teleprocessing (COMC07)
	Computing Concepts: Transmitting Data (COMC08)