1. STUDY SKILLS AND INTRODUCTION TO THE USE OF COMPUTERS
IS50004A

2. Contact Dr Lahcen Ouarbya Office: Room 6, 29 St-James
Tel:
Office Hours: Thursday 3-4pm

3. 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

4. Lectures & Labs/workshops
RHB 309
Time 9 –11am
Labs /workshops
Whitehead Building 316
Time &
There are two groups A and B, alternate

5. Reading list
Books
White, R. (2002). How Computers Work. 6th Edition. (Indianapolis, Indiana:: QUE, 2002) edition [ISBN ]
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.
Novels Neuromancer by William Gibson
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson