CO3812:04
Current Information Technology for Business 1
Townsville, Cairns
HECS Band 2
26 hours lectures, 24 hours practicals. Semester 2.
Staff: Mr J Roberts (Townsville campus); Mr J Hamilton (Cairns campus).
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:
- describe how data is stored and manipulated in a computer;
- describe how a basic computer works, the 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 programming languages;
- 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%).