Hardware and software technology for handling information; system architecture for single user, central and networked systems; telecommunications; human computer interface; storage systems; operating systems; applications software.
This course introduces the variety of contemporary information technologies involving computers, networks, and telecommunications that are commonly used to handle information flows, processing, and storage in typical organizations. Both hardware and software technologies are covered. Emphasis is on the uses of components as "black boxes": their external behavioural capabilities and use, rather than their internal construction. Assignments will involve issues of comparing, choosing among, and combining information technology components to solve particular information problems. Lab work will involve working on open-ended problems using standard applications and languages. Some programming will be required.
Topics include:
· Number systems - binary, hexadecimal, octal, decimal; conversions; twos complement; floating point, coding systems
· CPU architecture - ALU, control unit, registers, buses, instruction set, addressing modes
· Peripheral devices - CRTs, keyboards, magnetic and optical disks, printers, modems, pointing devices.
· Operating systems - Windows, DOS, unix, file systems
· Programming languages - Java
· Multi-media - audio, video, animation, file formats, authoring
· Networks - components, topologies, internet, world wide web
· Communications – serial, parallel, synchronous, asynchronous, protocols
The following is the required textbook for the course:
The Architecture of Computer Hardware and Systems Software : An Information Technology Approach (2nd ed.), by Irv Englander, published by John Wiley & Sons, 2000.
Lecture Notes (Power Point files) · 3. Representing integer data · 5. Little man computer (deleted)
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