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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.

COM011000

COMPUTERS / Computer Architecture

COM000000

COMPUTERS / General

COM004000

COMPUTERS / Artificial Intelligence / General

COM016000

COMPUTERS / Artificial Intelligence / Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition

COM025000

COMPUTERS / Artificial Intelligence / Expert Systems

COM042000

COMPUTERS / Artificial Intelligence / Natural Language Processing

COM093000

COMPUTERS / Blockchain

COM005000

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COMPUTERS / Business & Productivity Software / General

COM027000

COMPUTERS / Business & Productivity Software / Accounting & Finance

COM005030

COMPUTERS / Business & Productivity Software / Business Intelligence

COM066000

COMPUTERS / Business & Productivity Software / Collaboration

COM084010

COMPUTERS / Business & Productivity Software / Databases

COM084020

COMPUTERS / Business & Productivity Software / Email Clients

COM084030

COMPUTERS / Business & Productivity Software / Office Suites

COM078000

COMPUTERS / Business & Productivity Software / Presentations

COM081000

COMPUTERS / Business & Productivity Software / Project Management Tools

COM054000

COMPUTERS / Business & Productivity Software / Spreadsheets

COM058000

COMPUTERS / Business & Productivity Software / Word Processing

COM006000

COMPUTERS / Buyer's Guides

COM055000

COMPUTERS / Certification Guides / General

COM055030

COMPUTERS / Certification Guides / Cisco

COM055010

COMPUTERS / Certification Guides / CompTIA (incl. A+)

COM055020

COMPUTERS / Certification Guides / Microsoft

COM055040

COMPUTERS / Certification Guides / Oracle

COM059000

COMPUTERS / Computer Engineering

 

COMPUTERS / Computer Industry see BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Computers & Information Technology

COM013000

COMPUTERS / Computer Literacy

COM014000

COMPUTERS / Computer Science

COM072000

COMPUTERS / Computer Simulation

 

COMPUTERS / Computer Viruses see Security / Viruses & Malware

COM017000

COMPUTERS / Cybernetics

 

COMPUTERS / Data Recovery see System Administration / Backup & Recovery

COM018000

COMPUTERS / Data Science / General

COM021030

COMPUTERS / Data Science / Data Analytics

COM062000

COMPUTERS / Data Science / Data Modeling & Design

COM089000

COMPUTERS / Data Science / Data Visualization

COM021040

COMPUTERS / Data Science / Data Warehousing

COM094000

COMPUTERS / Data Science / Machine Learning

COM044000

COMPUTERS / Data Science / Neural Networks

COM021000

COMPUTERS / Database Administration & Management

COM087000

COMPUTERS / Design, Graphics & Media / General

COM087010

COMPUTERS / Design, Graphics & Media / Audio

COM007000

COMPUTERS / Design, Graphics & Media / CAD-CAM

COM087020

COMPUTERS / Design, Graphics & Media / Graphics Tools

COM087030

COMPUTERS / Design, Graphics & Media / Photography (see also PHOTOGRAPHY / Techniques / Digital)

COM071000

COMPUTERS / Design, Graphics & Media / Video & Animation

COM048000

COMPUTERS / Distributed Systems / General

COM061000

COMPUTERS / Distributed Systems / Client-Server Computing

COM091000

COMPUTERS / Distributed Systems / Cloud Computing

COM063000

COMPUTERS / Document Management

COM085000

COMPUTERS / Documentation & Technical Writing

COM023000

COMPUTERS / Educational Software

COM064000

COMPUTERS / Electronic Commerce (see also headings under BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / E-Commerce)

 

COMPUTERS / Email see Business & Productivity Software / Email Clients or System Administration / Email Servers

COM092000

COMPUTERS / Embedded Computer Systems

 

COMPUTERS / Entertainment & Games see GAMES & ACTIVITIES / Video & Mobile

 

COMPUTERS / Financial Applications see Business & Productivity Software / Accounting & Finance

COM099000

COMPUTERS / Forensics

 

COMPUTERS / Games see Programming / Games or GAMES & ACTIVITIES / Video & Mobile

COM067000

COMPUTERS / Hardware / General

COM074000

COMPUTERS / Hardware / Cell Phones & Devices

COM041000

COMPUTERS / Hardware / Chips & Processors

COM038000

COMPUTERS / Hardware / Mainframes & Minicomputers

COM050000

COMPUTERS / Hardware / Personal Computers / General

COM050020

COMPUTERS / Hardware / Personal Computers / Macintosh

COM050010

COMPUTERS / Hardware / Personal Computers / PCs

COM049000

COMPUTERS / Hardware / Printers, Scanners & External Accessories

COM090000

COMPUTERS / Hardware / Tablets

COM080000

COMPUTERS / History

COM079010

COMPUTERS / Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

 

COMPUTERS / Hypertext Systems see Languages / HTML

COM012050

COMPUTERS / Image Processing

 

COMPUTERS / Information Storage & Retrieval see System Administration / Storage & Retrieval

COM032000

COMPUTERS / Information Technology

COM031000

COMPUTERS / Information Theory

 

COMPUTERS / Input-Output Equipment see headings under Hardware

COM034000

COMPUTERS / Interactive & Multimedia

COM060000

COMPUTERS / Internet / General

COM060100

COMPUTERS / Internet / Blogging

 

COMPUTERS / Internet / Commercial Use see Electronic Commerce or headings under BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / E-Commerce

COM060170

COMPUTERS / Internet / Content Management Systems

 

COMPUTERS / Internet / Intranets see Networking / Intranets & Extranets

COM060040

COMPUTERS / Internet / Online Safety & Privacy

COM060110

COMPUTERS / Internet / Podcasting & Webcasting

COM060120

COMPUTERS / Internet / Search Engines

COM060140

COMPUTERS / Internet / Social Media

COM060150

COMPUTERS / Internet / User-Generated Content

COM060010

COMPUTERS / Internet / Web Browsers

COM060130

COMPUTERS / Internet / Web Design

COM060160

COMPUTERS / Internet / Web Programming

COM060180

COMPUTERS / Internet / Web Services & APIs

COM095000

COMPUTERS / Internet of Things (IoT)

COM051010

COMPUTERS / Languages / General

COM051040

COMPUTERS / Languages / Assembly Language

COM051060

COMPUTERS / Languages / C

COM051070

COMPUTERS / Languages / C++

COM051310

COMPUTERS / Languages / C#

COM051270

COMPUTERS / Languages / HTML

COM051280

COMPUTERS / Languages / Java

COM051260

COMPUTERS / Languages / JavaScript

COM051480

COMPUTERS / Languages / JSON

COM051470

COMPUTERS / Languages / .NET

COM051350

COMPUTERS / Languages / Perl

COM051400

COMPUTERS / Languages / PHP

COM051360

COMPUTERS / Languages / Python

COM051410

COMPUTERS / Languages / Ruby

COM051170

COMPUTERS / Languages / SQL

COM051450

COMPUTERS / Languages / UML

COM051200

COMPUTERS / Languages / Visual BASIC

COM051320

COMPUTERS / Languages / XML

COM036000

COMPUTERS / Logic Design

COM037000

COMPUTERS / Machine Theory

 

COMPUTERS / Mainframes & Minicomputers see Hardware / Mainframes & Minicomputers

COM039000

COMPUTERS / Management Information Systems

COM077000

COMPUTERS / Mathematical & Statistical Software

 

COMPUTERS / Multimedia see Interactive & Multimedia

COM043000

COMPUTERS / Networking / General

COM075000

COMPUTERS / Networking / Hardware

COM060030

COMPUTERS / Networking / Intranets & Extranets

COM043020

COMPUTERS / Networking / Local Area Networks (LANs)

COM043040

COMPUTERS / Networking / Network Protocols

 

COMPUTERS / Networking / Security see Security / Network Security

COM046000

COMPUTERS / Operating Systems / General

COM046100

COMPUTERS / Operating Systems / Android

COM046110

COMPUTERS / Operating Systems / iOS

COM046070

COMPUTERS / Operating Systems / Linux

COM046020

COMPUTERS / Operating Systems / Mac OS

COM046080

COMPUTERS / Operating Systems / Mainframe & Midrange

COM046030

COMPUTERS / Operating Systems / UNIX

COM046040

COMPUTERS / Operating Systems / Windows Desktop

COM046050

COMPUTERS / Operating Systems / Windows Server

COM047000

COMPUTERS / Optical Data Processing

COM096000

COMPUTERS / Parallel Processing

 

COMPUTERS / Peripherals see Hardware / Printers, Scanners & External Accessories

 

COMPUTERS / Personal Computers & Microcomputers see headings under Hardware / Personal Computers

COM051000

COMPUTERS / Programming / General

COM051300

COMPUTERS / Programming / Algorithms

COM010000

COMPUTERS / Programming / Compilers

COM012040

COMPUTERS / Programming / Games

 

COMPUTERS / Programming / Languages see headings under Languages

COM051370

COMPUTERS / Programming / Macintosh

COM051380

COMPUTERS / Programming / Microsoft

COM051460

COMPUTERS / Programming / Mobile Devices

COM051210

COMPUTERS / Programming / Object Oriented

COM051390

COMPUTERS / Programming / Open Source

COM051220

COMPUTERS / Programming / Parallel

 

COMPUTERS / Programming Languages see headings under Languages

COM097000

COMPUTERS / Quantum Computing

COM052000

COMPUTERS / Reference

COM053000

COMPUTERS / Security / General

COM083000

COMPUTERS / Security / Cryptography & Encryption

COM043050

COMPUTERS / Security / Network Security

COM015000

COMPUTERS / Security / Viruses & Malware

COM079000

COMPUTERS / Social Aspects

COM051230

COMPUTERS / Software Development & Engineering / General

COM012000

COMPUTERS / Software Development & Engineering / Computer Graphics

COM051430

COMPUTERS / Software Development & Engineering / Project Management

COM051330

COMPUTERS / Software Development & Engineering / Quality Assurance & Testing

COM051240

COMPUTERS / Software Development & Engineering / Systems Analysis & Design

COM051440

COMPUTERS / Software Development & Engineering / Tools

COM073000

COMPUTERS / Speech & Audio Processing

COM088000

COMPUTERS / System Administration / General

COM019000

COMPUTERS / System Administration / Backup & Recovery

COM020020

COMPUTERS / System Administration / Email Servers

COM088010

COMPUTERS / System Administration / Linux & UNIX Administration

COM030000

COMPUTERS / System Administration / Storage & Retrieval

COM046090

COMPUTERS / System Administration / Virtualization & Containerization

COM088020

COMPUTERS / System Administration / Windows Administration

 

COMPUTERS / Systems Analysis see Software Development & Engineering / Systems Analysis & Design

COM070000

COMPUTERS / User Interfaces

 

COMPUTERS / Video Games see GAMES & ACTIVITIES / Video & Mobile

COM057000

COMPUTERS / Virtual & Augmented Reality

 

COMPUTERS / Viruses see Security / Viruses & Malware

COM098000

COMPUTERS / Voice Search & Digital Assistants

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