1. Former Students Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Prince Norah Bint Abdul Rahman University College of Computer Since and Information System NET201

2. Computing Support A job in Computing support involves setting up and maintain computing systems and providing help and training to computer users.

3. Qualifications in computing in US: Higher national certificate (HNC): Available in a wide variety of subjects. Studied in a college after leaving school. Can be studied as a full time or part time course. Takes a year to complete. Higher National Dimploma (HND) Higher qualification than an HNC. Available in a wide variety of subjects. Studied in a college after HNC. However, it is at l lower level than a degree which is studied at a university. Usually studied as a full time course. Takes a one to two years to complete.

4. Course Subjects and its Topics Topics involvedCourse The way that the component of a computer are connected together. Computer Architecture Installing and maintaining hardware (computer equipment). HW Installation & Maintenance Way of using information technology (IT). Info Tech applications A set of programs used for controlling a computer such as a mainframe that can be used by many users at the same time. Multi-user operating system Systems involved in connecting computers together. Network Technology

5. Course Subjects and its Topics Topics involvedCourse The stages in developing a new computer program and training users how to user it. Software Development Life Cycle Setting up and maintaining computers that are not connected together in a network Standalone Computer System Support Writing computer programs using computer language that operates using modules called procedures Software Development Procedural Language Transmitting and receiving data across a network system that uses the telephone network. e.g. the internet Data communications, telecommunications Creating systems for providing business information using combinations of computer applications programs Information Systems & Services, IT and Information system, Systems building

6. Course Subjects and its Topics Topics involvedCourse Stages involved in developing a computer system System development Organizing a computer development project Project Management Using applications programs such as wordprocessor, spreadsheets and databases Applications Language skills, how to get your point over; how to make a presentation i.e. giving a talk about subject Communications, Making Presentations Designing a system for sorting related data so that it can be easily searched and sorted using the Microsoft Access database program Creating a database, learning Access

7. Course Subjects and its Topics Topics involvedCourse Analysisng systems and designing programs for computerising the system. Also training users to use the compurerised system Systems Analysis Carried out by a person called a programmer. It involves writing a program ( a set of instructions written in a computer language for controlling a computer) Programming,Writing a program Ways of using computers and Computer programs Computer use and Applications

8. Course Subjects and its Topics Topics involvedCourse Computer instructions used to control computers connected together Network Commands Using systems programs that convert high-level languages that humans use for writing programs into machine code that that computer processor can use. Compilers covert the whole program before the program is executed. Interpreters convert the program, one line at a time as the programe is running Compilers vs. Interpreters

9. Course Subjects and its Topics Topics involvedCourse The way that a computer uses electronic memory to store programs and data Memory Management Ways of connecting computers together to form a LAN (Local Area Network – a network over a small area) LAN Topology How different types of buses work in PCs. Buses are sets of connectors that carry signals between different parts of a computers. PC Bus Architectures Connecting printers to a computer to act as a output device. How to connect printers

10. Course Subjects and its Topics Topics involvedCourse The operating system commonly used on mainframes and multi-users system. UNIX operating System A computer language used for teaching programming. Other computer languages (COBLOL and C++) Pascal Looking after desktop computers.Maintenance of desktops Computer programs used in an office environment. Wordprocessing and other office applications Numbering system with only tow digits (1 and 0). Binary System