CO2812:03
*NOTE* Current Information Technology for Business 1A
Townsville, Cairns
HECS Band 2
26 hours lectures, 12 hours tutorials, 12 hours workshops. Semester 2.
An examination, in detail, of the hardware and software of business computers systems, including data representation, computer architecture, peripheral devices, systems software, program structure, semantics and syntax of programming languages.
Learning Objectives:
- describe how data is stored and manipulated in a computer;
- describe how a basic computer works; describe basic and current computer architecture;
- describe, compare and contrast computer peripheral devices;
- describe the basic and current functions of an operating system;
- describe the structure of a computer program and the general semantics and syntax of programing languages;
- write an IT specification for system acquisition and testing, from an existing analysis of an information system.
Assessment by mid-semester tests (10%); assignments (40%); final examination (50%).