Study Guide

Objective

After completing this course a student can
- use a personal computer and applications required in the studies
- is familiar with the structure of a personal computer (can install applications and verify the requirements for the installations)
- can effectively utilize operation systems and their services (search and locate files, inpect their properties, package files)
- can transfer data between computers and data storages

Materials

-Lecture notes
-Video material on web
-The learning material will be available on itslearning.

International connections

Theoretical topics will be discussed on lectured together with the participating students. Practical applications will be first shown on the demonstration classes and afterward exercises related to these will be completed by the students with the teacher helping as needed.

Student workload

Participation on the lectures and exercise classes is mandatory.

-Lectures 4h
-Exercises 4h
-Exam 2h
-Independent study 17h

Content scheduling

The basic computer skills needed for ICT-students:
-hardware: processor, memory, hard drive
-software: operating system, file system, applications

These topics will be introduced and basics of applying these in practice will be shown during the exercise classes.

This course is only taken together with the Introduction to Python Programming course and forms a pre-requisite for that course.

Evaluation scale

H-5