STUDY SKILLS AND INTRODUCTION TO THE USE OF COMPUTERS IS50004A
Contact Dr Lahcen Ouarbya Office: Room 6, 29 St-James Email: l.ouarbya@gold.ac.uk Tel: 0207 7172263 Office Hours: Thursday 3-4pm
Course Outcome Introduction to the use of computers Files and folders/directories Introduction to binary system Memory CPU Logic Gate Operating Systems The Internet HTML and XHTML Introduction to computer networks Network protocols. Computer laws
Lectures & Labs/workshops RHB 309 Time 9 –11am Labs /workshops Whitehead Building 316 Time 11.00-12.00 & 12.00-13.00 There are two groups A and B, alternate
Reading list Books White, R. (2002). How Computers Work. 6th Edition. (Indianapolis, Indiana:: QUE, 2002) edition [ISBN 0789725495] Computer Science: An Overview by J. Glenn Brookshear New Inside the PC by Peter Norton William Stallings, (2003). Computer Organization and Architecture: Designing for Performance. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice-Hall. http://williamstallings.com/COA5e.html Novels Neuromancer by William Gibson Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson