James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2000

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CP1030:03

Introduction to Information Technology

Townsville, Cairns

26 lectures, 39 hours practicals. First semester (Townsville and Cairns campuses) and second semester (Townsville campus only).

Discovering computing via the Web, email and the Internet; searching for information on the Internet; hardware and software components; setting up a personal computer; problem solving with computers; word processing; document layout and production; presentation managers; spreadsheets; databases; data communication and computer networks; multimedia; new technologies; ethics, privacy and the information industry.

Assessment involves significant on-course assessment including assignments and tests and an examination at the end of the semester. The full details of the assessment are handed out to students in the class in the first week of the semester in which the subject is offered and posted on the Web.


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