CS2172 Fundamentals of Computing

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CS2172 Fundamentals of Computing
Our roadmap.
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Objective of this course

• 1) Equip students with basic knowledge / theories
  in computer science, which would be useful to
  the student when
• Purchasing your new equipment
• Understanding the jargons in news, advertisements
  and daily conversation
• Learning new application program / updated
  technology

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Objective of this course

• 2) Equip students with necessary skills which are
  useful in commercial world
• Creating your own homepage to introduce yourself
  to your potential employer / partner.
• Basic word processing and spreadsheet calculation
  required for clerical work

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How ?

• Lecture will be used to cover the various
  theories with update news
• Students will have the chances to get themselves
  familiar to application programs (hands-on)
  through Tutorials and Assignments.
• Quiz (about week 9) and Examination to assess the
  achievement of students

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What will be covered in lecture..

• Introduction (week 1)
• Appreciate the role of computer in daily life
• Understand software and hardware
• Introduction to different types of computer and
  hardware equipment

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What will be covered in lecture..

• WWW and Internet (week 2,3)
• Overview of communication hardware and different
  types of network
• History (brief) and trend of internet
• Hardware and Software used to access internet
• Features and performance of ISP (Internet Service
  Provider)
• Appreciate the hierarchical architecture of
  internet
• Internet and daily life

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What will be covered in lecture..

• Network Model and Protocol (week 3-5)
• Introduction to theories regarding computer
  networking
• Understand how different software and hardware
  cooperate when a user access network
• Distinguish students from typical internet user

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What will be covered in lecture..
What? POP3? IMAP? HTTP? What are you talking
about?
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What will be covered in lecture..

• Binary system, Processor and Interface (week 5-7)
• More theories on binary number and processor
• Understand how different hardware are connected
  to computer and their advantages(Imagine you
  want to buy a web-cam or other upgrade)
• Different kind of storage hardware and medium
• I want a fast hard-disk so I should..
• I want to backup my homework so I should

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What will be covered in lecture..

• More Hardware (week 8, 10)
• Different kinds of input/output hardware
• I want a new monitor / printer / scanner,
  but.which one should I buy?
• Help you to understand the wordings in
  advertisement and identifies the one fits you
• Some more hardware related to networking and
  notebook

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What will be covered in lecture..

• Operating Systems (week 11, 12)
• Some more theories
• What is multi-thread?
• Appreciate the importance and role of operating
  system.
• Understand different types of Computer-User-Interf
  ace.

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What will be covered in lecture..

• Multimedia Computing (Week 12, 13)
• Some signal theories on sampling and compression
• What is 128kbps mp3?
• What is 5.1 channel?
• Common format and standard used to store audio /
  video?

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What will be covered in tutorial..

• To get familiar to application programs required
  in commercial world
• Let you have some basic concept to study further
  (determine which CSC course you want to take).
• To present you idea in webpage, with text, table,
  and graphics (Dreamweaver)
• I want no ordinary homepage, I want a fancy one!
  (animated GIF and Flash)
• Basic spreadsheet operation with Excel
• I want to send personalized letter to each of my
  clients (MS Word Mail Merge)

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What is better than taking a course?

• 1. To work on it by yourself
• In Assignment 1, student will be given a chance
  to build up their own webpage
• Final year students can take this chance to make
  it a nice one and introduce oneself to the
  potential employer / business partner
• To make it a fair assignment (regardless of prior
  computing background), the assignment will
  consider some other factor such as effort,
  interface and reasonable content)

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What is better than taking a course?

• 2. To try to learn by yourself
• New software/hardware are invented everyday and
  its simply not possible to take a course for
  each of them.
• In assignment 2 (group), students will be given a
  chance to research on a particular type of
  application programs of interest.
• Students will have chance to work (and learn)
  with classmates and present the finding in the
  form of report and presentation (week 11-13)

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Quiz and Exam

• Midterm quiz will be scheduled to about week 9
• In about week 13, revision questions will be
  given to students in order to summarize what
  weve learnt in this semester and also to get
  familiarized to the format of exam.