- Docente: Angelo Troina
- Credits: 8
- SSD: INF/01
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Rimini
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Economics of Tourism (cod. 8847)
Learning outcomes
Conscious usage of the information technologies. Knowledge of hardware and software basics. Computer networks, the Internet and the Web specifically. When completed the course, the student should: analytically use of the computer; follow the evolution of IT; apply the computer to solve some kind of problems; be able to use common tools.
Course contents
Introduction to Information Technology and brief history of the automation of calculus. Representing information digitally. Computer Architecture. Operating Systems. Algorithms. Computer networks, Internet and WWW. Introduction to the HTML language. Searching information on the WWW. Social implication of Information
Technology. Privacy and digital security. Word processing. Spreadsheets.
Introduction to databases.
Readings/Bibliography
Lawrence Snyder, Alessandro Amoroso; Fluency - Conoscere e usare l'informatica (6/ed); Pearson, 2015
Teaching methods
Lessons and guided practice with computers.
Assessment methods
The exam takes place in the computer lab and it is composed by a set of quiz with multiple choice answers on the topics of the course.
Teaching tools
Computer science labs.
Office hours
See the website of Angelo Troina