STUDY SKILLS AND INTRODUCTION TO THE USE OF COMPUTERS

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STUDY SKILLS AND INTRODUCTION TO THE USE OF
COMPUTERS

• IS50004A

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Contact

• Dr Lahcen Ouarbya
• Office Room 6, 29 St-James
• Email l.ouarbya_at_gold.ac.uk
• Tel [phone]
• Office Hours Thursday 3-4pm

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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

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Lectures Labs/workshops

• Lectures
• 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

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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
• NovelsNeuromancer by William Gibson
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson