1. Revision
Week 1-3

2. Hardware Design of a Personal Computer What is hardware
Components inside a system unit (motherboard, processor, cooling system, processors, RAM, expansion cards, RAID, secondary storage,…)
I/O devices, connector and buses.
Moore’s Law

3. Digital information Encoding information
Storing Decimal Numbers in a machine
Binary Numbers (Conversions)
Bits and Bytes
Decimal and Binary Prefixes

4. Software What is software? File formats Open and proprietary standards
Copyright vs patents
Proprietary software (Commercial, Freeware, shareware)
Free software / Open source software
Kinds of software (application vs system)
Spyware, malware, viruses

5. Networking and the Internet
Circuit switching vs packet switching
Arpanet
Types of Network
Networking hardware
Protocols
IP and Domain Names

6. Electronic Communications
Instant messaging
Forums
Spam
Security issues
Authenticating users
Synchronous and asynchronous communications

7. Electronic Publishing
Blogs, microblogging
Wikipedia
Wiki markup

8. WWW Hypertext WWW project Evolution of the web HTTP /HTTPS URL
Protocol for accessing webpages
Proxy, cache, firewall
Search engines

9. Ethical, Social and Legal Issues on the Web
Online anonymity
Different kinds of malware
Online bullying
Cultural dominance
Copyright and file sharing
Censorship on the Web

10. Word Processing ASCII Text Editors vs Word Processors Standards
WYSIWYG
Styles
Headers, Footers, Footnote

11. Good luck!!