James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2000

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CO3812:04

Current Information Technology for Business

Townsville

Prerequisites: CO2801
Inadmissable Subject Combination: CO1802 CP1000 CP1006 CP1010 CP1020 CP1500

26 lectures, 24 practicals. Second semester.

To examine in detail the hardware and software of business computer systems including: data representation, computer architecture, peripheral devices, systems software, program structure, semantics and syntax of programming languages.

Learning Objectives:

  1. describe how data is stored and manipulated in a computer;
  2. describe how a basic computer works, the basic and current computer architecture;
  3. describe, compare and contrast computer peripheral devices;
  4. describe the basic and current functions of an operating system;
  5. describe the structure of a computer program and the general semantics and syntax of programming languages;
  6. write an IT specification for system acquisition and testing, from an existing analysis of an Information System.

Assessment by class test/s (10%); assignment/s (40%); final examination (50%).

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