Introduction to computing and the Internet

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Introduction to computing and the Internet

• Dr. Lahcen Ouarbya
• 29 St-James, Room 6
• Email l.ouarbya_at_doc.gold.ac.uk
• Tel [phone]
• Surgery hour Friday ?

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Course Organisation

• Based on the University of London study guide
• Introduction to Computing and the Internet,
• published by Francis Lin (2004).

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Course Organisation (Cont)

• The aim
• How computers work?
• How is information stored in a computer?
• How is information processed in a computer?
• How is information represented in a computer?
• How are computing operations co-ordinated and
  managed?

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Course Organisation (Cont)

• History of Computers
• Binary systems
• Data representation
• Computer Architecture
• Data storage
• Data processing
• Operating systems
• Web languages
• HTML , XHTML AND XML
• Introduction to relational database
• Introduction to shell scripts (if time allows)

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Course delivery

• Lecture (2 hours )
• Lab or workshop (1 hour per group )

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Assessment

• Two assignments
• Assignment 1, given week before reading week.
  (10)
• Assignment 2 given week before Xmas holiday (10)
  
• Exam on May, (80)

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Organising your studies(2)

• Study guide on its own is not enough
• Additional reading
• 3-5 Hours per week
• Recommended reference books
• Doing exercises

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Useful Textbooks

• William Stallings, (2003). Computer Organization
  and Architecture Designing for Performance.
  Upper Saddle River, N.J. Prentice-Hall.
• http//williamstallings.com/COA5e.html
• J. Glenn Brookshear, Computer Science (an
  overview), Sixth edition. Addison-Wesley, 2000.
• Barry Wilkinson, Computer architecture (design
  and performance). Second Edition. Prentice Hall,
  1996.
• Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Structure Computer
  Organization. Third Edition. Prentice Hall, 1990
• White, R. (2002). How Computers Work. 6th
  Edition. (Indianapolis, Indiana QUE, 2002)
  edition ISBN 0789725495

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Other useful books

• Martin Bryan, SGML and HTML explained
  .Addison-Wesley
• William Davis, Operating Systems .
  Addison-Wesley
• Gary Nutt, Operating Systems a modern
  perspective. Addison-Wesley.

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Labs

• Introduction to HTML
• Lab exercises
• http//www.doc.gold.ac.uk/mas01lo/teaching/cis110
  /labs/labs.html

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Lecture Slides

• http//www.doc.gold.ac.uk/mas01lo/teaching_07/cis
  110/2007-08/lectures/lectures.html