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78665 - Computer Studies and Human Sciences (LM) (M-Z)

Academic Year 2019/2020

                
                        Docente:
                        Valentina Presutti
                    
                        Credits:
                        3
                    
                        Language:
                        Italian
                    
                        Teaching Mode:
                        Traditional lectures
                        
                            Campus:
                            Bologna
                        
                            Corso:
                            Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
                            Language, Society and Communication (cod. 8874)

                            Teaching resources on Virtuale

Learning outcomes

The student knows how to apply specific software and informatics programmes to language and communication ambits.

Course contents

This course aims at providing the student with the basics of Computer Science including its associated terminology. The following list of topics summarises the content of the course:

Basic terminology and historical evolution of computers
Computational thinking
The von Neumann Architecture
The multilevel machine
Data structures (lists, stacks, queues, associative arrays, trees, graphs)
The notions of algorithm and programmer
The building blocks of flowcharts
The termination problem and the Turing machine

Readings/Bibliography

Notes, slides and exercises are available at https://iol.unibo.it/

Topics not addressed by the notes and other material on iol are to be studied on the following books / articles:

Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Todd Austin: Structured Computer Organisation 6th Edition. Pearson, 2013. (Chapters 1 and 2)

Teaching methods

Lectures

Assessment methods

The assessment for this course does not provide a grade, it will result in a positive or negative assessment.The assessment for this course does not provide a grade, it will result in a positive or negative assessment. The main assessment method is based on a multiple choice questions test focused on the topics detailed in the Course/Content section. Questions may be oriented to assess acquired notions as well as require some reasoning based on the acquired abilities. There will not be open questions.

A student who will decide to develop a project for the ITS module assessment will automatically have a positive assessment for this module, after passing the ITS exam (the option based on a project presentation and in depth discussion). The student will not need to make the test, only in that case.

Teaching tools

Slides, they will be projected during the lectures and put online on the course web page.

Office hours

See the website of Valentina Presutti