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GENERAL COMPUTER SCIENCE
cod. 07541

Academic year 2009/10
1° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Informatica (INF/01)
Field
Scienze propedeutiche
Type of training activity
Basic
8 hours
of face-to-face activities
1 credits
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Integrated course unit module: PHYSICS

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Learning objectives

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

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

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

Full programme

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Bibliography

<br /> <br />Introduzione ai sistemi informatici <br />D. Sciuto, G. Buonanno, W. Fornaciari, L. Mari, <br />Mc Graw Hill, 2004<br />Lecture notes

Teaching methods

<br />Assessment is by written examination, or oral examination if necessary.

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