Objectives
IT Fundamentals aims to give students a practical and theoretical background into the use of computers in a wide range of domains.
Description
Students should be aware that no assumptions about prior knowledge needed. The topics to be covered are:
* The main hardware units of the computer; how they work, how they are interconnected and how processing is controlled in the computer.
* Input and output methods.
* How data is stored internally and externally.
* Comparison of storage media.
* Introduction to multiprocessing and multiprogramming computers.
* Introduction to telecommunications.
* Introduction to system software, including operating systems.
* Spreadsheets.
* World Wide Web.
* Html language.
* Microsoft Access.
* Computers and society.
Assessment
Assignment 1 10 %
Assignment 2 10 %
Assignment 3 10 %
Tests 10 %
Final Exam 60 %
---------
100 %
======
Lecture Program
Week Lecture Content Reading / Exercises
Introduction & Theory 1
1 Introduction to the course
Basic computer concepts Text 1
CPU: components, system clock, fetch-execute cycle Text 2
2 Input - needs, types of devices.
Output - needs, types of devices Text 3
3 Secondary storage: description of devices and media
Methods of data organization on tape and disk Text 4
Introduction to Spreadsheets
4 Definition of a spreadsheet, cell contents Text 6
Uses of spreadsheets
Range specification, some common functions, formulae,
absolute and relative cell addressing
5 Functions, spreadsheet design, case study (Orchids shade house)
Chart characteristics and design, financial functions
6 Excel case study assignment 1
Theory 2
7 Software: operating systems & application software
Programming, historical development Text 5
8 Data communications: needs, fundamentals,
equipment, connectivity Text 8
Ways of using computers: stand alone, networks.
Introduction to World Wide Web
9 (Mid-term) Test
10 Introduction to WWW, computers and society Text 9,10
Constructing web pages - structure of a HTML document
11 Constructing web pages - tables & images
12 HTML case study assignment 2
Introduction to Database
13 Databases - concept of a database Text 7
Microsoft Access: introduction to Access
14 Microsoft Access: queries from Access
15 Microsoft Access: reports from Access
16 Microsoft Access case study assignment 3
17 Revision
18 Final examination
??
??
??
??
柴麻字廨匍哂囂縮殻
柴麻字廨匍哂囂縮殻
