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COMPUTERS

Use "COMPUTERS / Electronic Commerce" for works on the computer skills and technology needed to facilitate electronic commerce and use subjects beginning with "BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / E-Commerce" for works discussing the business aspects of electronic commerce.


COM000000COMPUTERS / General
COM082000COMPUTERS / Bioinformatics
COMPUTERS / Business Software see Enterprise Applications / Business Intelligence Tools
COM006000COMPUTERS / Buyer's Guides
COM007000COMPUTERS / CAD-CAM
COM008000COMPUTERS / Calculators
COM009000COMPUTERS / CD-DVD Technology
COM055000COMPUTERS / Certification Guides / General
COM055010COMPUTERS / Certification Guides / A+
COM055020COMPUTERS / Certification Guides / MCSE
COM061000COMPUTERS / Client-Server Computing
COM010000COMPUTERS / Compilers
COM059000COMPUTERS / Computer Engineering
COM012000COMPUTERS / Computer Graphics
COMPUTERS / Computer Industry see BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Computer Industry
COM013000COMPUTERS / Computer Literacy
COM014000COMPUTERS / Computer Science
COM072000COMPUTERS / Computer Simulation
COMPUTERS / Computer Viruses see Security / Viruses & Malware
COM016000COMPUTERS / Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition
COM086000COMPUTERS / Computerized Home & Entertainment
COM017000COMPUTERS / Cybernetics
COM062000COMPUTERS / Data Modeling & Design
COM018000COMPUTERS / Data Processing
COMPUTERS / Data Recovery see System Administration / Disaster & Recovery
COM020000COMPUTERS / Data Transmission Systems / General
COM020050COMPUTERS / Data Transmission Systems / Broadband
COM020010COMPUTERS / Data Transmission Systems / Electronic Data Interchange
COM020090COMPUTERS / Data Transmission Systems / Wireless
COM089000COMPUTERS / Data Visualization *
COM021000COMPUTERS / Databases / General
COM021030COMPUTERS / Databases / Data Mining
COM021040COMPUTERS / Databases / Data Warehousing
COM021050COMPUTERS / Databases / Servers *
COM084000COMPUTERS / Desktop Applications / General
COM084010COMPUTERS / Desktop Applications / Databases
COM087020COMPUTERS / Desktop Applications / Design & Graphics
COM022000COMPUTERS / Desktop Applications / Desktop Publishing
COM084020COMPUTERS / Desktop Applications / Email Clients
COM027000COMPUTERS / Desktop Applications / Personal Finance Applications
COM078000COMPUTERS / Desktop Applications / Presentation Software
COM081000COMPUTERS / Desktop Applications / Project Management Software
COM054000COMPUTERS / Desktop Applications / Spreadsheets
COM084030COMPUTERS / Desktop Applications / Suites
COM058000COMPUTERS / Desktop Applications / Word Processing
COM087000COMPUTERS / Digital Media / General
COM087010COMPUTERS / Digital Media / Audio
COM087030COMPUTERS / Digital Media / Photography (see also PHOTOGRAPHY / Techniques / Digital)
COM071000COMPUTERS / Digital Media / Video & Animation
COM063000COMPUTERS / Document Management
COM085000COMPUTERS / Documentation & Technical Writing
COM023000COMPUTERS / Educational Software
COM064000COMPUTERS / Electronic Commerce (see also headings under BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / E-Commerce)
COM065000COMPUTERS / Electronic Publishing
COMPUTERS / Email see Desktop Applications / Email Clients or System Administration / Email Administration
COM005000COMPUTERS / Enterprise Applications / General
COM005030COMPUTERS / Enterprise Applications / Business Intelligence Tools
COM066000COMPUTERS / Enterprise Applications / Collaboration Software
COMPUTERS / Entertainment & Games see GAMES / Video & Electronic
COM025000COMPUTERS / Expert Systems
COMPUTERS / Financial Applications see Desktop Applications / Personal Finance Applications or Enterprise Applications / Business Intelligence Tools
COMPUTERS / Games see Programming / Games or GAMES / Video & Electronic
COM067000COMPUTERS / Hardware / General
COM038000COMPUTERS / Hardware / Mainframes & Minicomputers
COM074000COMPUTERS / Hardware / Mobile Devices
COM049000COMPUTERS / Hardware / Peripherals
COM050000COMPUTERS / Hardware / Personal Computers / General
COM050020COMPUTERS / Hardware / Personal Computers / Macintosh
COM050010COMPUTERS / Hardware / Personal Computers / PCs
COM090000COMPUTERS / Hardware / Tablets *
COM080000COMPUTERS / History
COMPUTERS / Hypertext Systems see Programming Languages / HTML
COM012050COMPUTERS / Image Processing
COMPUTERS / Information Storage & Retrieval see System Administration / Storage & Retrieval
COM032000COMPUTERS / Information Technology
COM031000COMPUTERS / Information Theory
COMPUTERS / Input-Output Equipment see headings under Hardware
COMPUTERS / Integrated Software see headings under Desktop Applications or headings under Enterprise Applications
COM004000COMPUTERS / Intelligence (AI) & Semantics
COM034000COMPUTERS / Interactive & Multimedia
COM060000COMPUTERS / Internet / General
COM060090COMPUTERS / Internet / Application Development
COMPUTERS / Internet / Commercial Use see Electronic Commerce or headings under BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / E-Commerce
COMPUTERS / Internet / Intranets see Networking / Intranets & Extranets
COMPUTERS / Internet / Server Maintenance see Hardware / Network Hardware
COM035000COMPUTERS / Keyboarding
COMPUTERS / Languages see headings under Programming Languages
COM036000COMPUTERS / Logic Design
COM037000COMPUTERS / Machine Theory
COMPUTERS / Mainframes & Minicomputers see Hardware / Mainframes & Minicomputers
COM039000COMPUTERS / Management Information Systems
COM077000COMPUTERS / Mathematical & Statistical Software
COM041000COMPUTERS / Microprocessors
COMPUTERS / Multimedia see Interactive & Multimedia
COM042000COMPUTERS / Natural Language Processing
COM043000COMPUTERS / Networking / General
COM060030COMPUTERS / Networking / Intranets & Extranets
COM075000COMPUTERS / Networking / Hardware
COM043020COMPUTERS / Networking / Local Area Networks (LANs)
COM043040COMPUTERS / Networking / Network Protocols
COMPUTERS / Networking / Security see Security / Networking
COM043060COMPUTERS / Networking / Vendor Specific
COM044000COMPUTERS / Neural Networks
COM069000COMPUTERS / Online Services
COM046000COMPUTERS / Operating Systems / General
COM046060COMPUTERS / Operating Systems / DOS
COM046070COMPUTERS / Operating Systems / Linux
COM046020COMPUTERS / Operating Systems / Macintosh
COM046080COMPUTERS / Operating Systems / Mainframe & Midrange
COM046030COMPUTERS / Operating Systems / UNIX
COM046090COMPUTERS / Operating Systems / Virtualization
COM046040COMPUTERS / Operating Systems / Windows Desktop
COM046050COMPUTERS / Operating Systems / Windows Server
COM047000COMPUTERS / Optical Data Processing
COMPUTERS / Parallel Processing see Systems Architecture / Distributed Systems & Computing
COMPUTERS / Peripherals see Hardware / Peripherals
COMPUTERS / Personal Computers & Microcomputers see headings under Hardware / Personal Computers
COM051000COMPUTERS / Programming / General
COM051300COMPUTERS / Programming / Algorithms
COM012040COMPUTERS / Programming / Games
COM051370COMPUTERS / Programming / Macinstosh
COMPUTERS / Programming / Languages see headings under Programming Languages
COM051380COMPUTERS / Programming / Microsoft
COM051460COMPUTERS / Programming / Mobile Devices *
COM051210COMPUTERS / Programming / Object Oriented
COM051390COMPUTERS / Programming / Open Source
COM051220COMPUTERS / Programming / Parallel
COM051010COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / General
COM051020COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / Ada
COM051470COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / ASP .NET *
COM051040COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / Assembly Language
COM051050COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / BASIC
COM051060COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / C
COM051070COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / C++
COM051310COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / C#
COM051080COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / COBOL
COM051090COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / FORTRAN
COM051270COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / HTML
COM051280COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / Java
COM051260COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / JavaScript
COM051100COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / LISP
COM051130COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / Pascal
COM051350COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / Perl
COM051400COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / PHP
COM051140COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / Prolog
COM051360COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / Python
COM051290COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / RPG
COM051410COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / Ruby
COM051160COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / Smalltalk
COM051170COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / SQL
COM051450COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / UML
COM051420COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / VBScript
COM051200COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / Visual BASIC
COM051320COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / XML
COM052000COMPUTERS / Reference
COM053000COMPUTERS / Security / General
COM083000COMPUTERS / Security / Cryptography
COM043050COMPUTERS / Security / Networking
COM060040COMPUTERS / Security / Online Safety & Privacy
COM015000COMPUTERS / Security / Viruses & Malware
COM079000COMPUTERS / Social Aspects / General
COM079010COMPUTERS / Social Aspects / Human-Computer Interaction
COM051230COMPUTERS / Software Development & Engineering / General
COM051430COMPUTERS / Software Development & Engineering / Project Management
COM051330COMPUTERS / Software Development & Engineering / Quality Assurance & Testing
COM051240COMPUTERS / Software Development & Engineering / Systems Analysis & Design
COM051440COMPUTERS / Software Development & Engineering / Tools
COM073000COMPUTERS / Speech & Audio Processing
COM088000COMPUTERS / System Administration / General
COM019000COMPUTERS / System Administration / Disaster & Recovery
COM020020COMPUTERS / System Administration / Email Administration
COM088010COMPUTERS / System Administration / Linux & UNIX Administration
COM030000COMPUTERS / System Administration / Storage & Retrieval
COM088020COMPUTERS / System Administration / Windows Administration
COMPUTERS / Systems Analysis see Software Development & Engineering / Systems Analysis & Design
COM011000COMPUTERS / Systems Architecture / General
COM048000COMPUTERS / Systems Architecture / Distributed Systems & Computing
COM070000COMPUTERS / User Interfaces
COM056000COMPUTERS / Utilities
COMPUTERS / Video Games see GAMES / Video & Electronic
COM057000COMPUTERS / Virtual Worlds
COMPUTERS / Viruses see Security / Viruses & Malware
COM060080COMPUTERS / Web / General
COM060170COMPUTERS / Web / Content Management Systems *
COM060130COMPUTERS / Web / Design
COM060100COMPUTERS / Web / Blogs
COM060010COMPUTERS / Web / Browsers
COM060110COMPUTERS / Web / Podcasting & Webcasting
COM060120COMPUTERS / Web / Search Engines
COM060070COMPUTERS / Web / Site Directories
COM060140COMPUTERS / Web / Social Networking
COM060150COMPUTERS / Web / User Generated Content
COM060160COMPUTERS / Web / Web Programming
COM060180COMPUTERS / Web / Web Services & APIs *


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NON000000 NON-CLASSIFIABLE

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