INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS
cod. 19771

Academic year 2011/12
1° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Sistemi di elaborazione delle informazioni (ING-INF/05)
Field
Scienze interdisciplinari
Type of training activity
Characterising
16 hours
of face-to-face activities
2 credits
hub: -
course unit
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Learning objectives

Provide the student with a theoretical knowledge of basic computer science on the technologies available today.

Prerequisites

none

Course unit content

Short account of historical evolution from the first inventions in the 1600s to the present
Introduction to computer science and the use of computers
General concepts on the operating principles
Functional analysis of the structure of a processor
Hardware: CPU Memory I/O devices
Binary system and Boolean operators
Information (text, numbers, images, sounds) and its digital representation
Software
Basic software and operating systems
Application software
Notes on programs and algorithms

Full programme

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Bibliography

Introduzione ai sistemi informatici
D. Sciuto, G. Buonanno, W. Fornaciari, L. Mari,
Mc Graw Hill, 2004

Teaching methods

classrom lectures

Assessment methods and criteria

written examination

Other information

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