Introduction to Information Technologies

Instructor
Scott MacKenzie, Associate Professor
Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics
Topics include:

·        Number systems - binary, hexadecimal, octal, decimal; conversions; twos complement; floating point, coding systems

·        CPU architecture - ALU, control unit, registers, buses, instruction set, addressing modes

·        Peripheral devices - CRTs, keyboards, magnetic and optical disks, printers, modems, pointing devices.

·        Operating systems - Windows, DOS, unix, file systems

·        Programming languages - Java

·        Multi-media - audio, video, animation, file formats, authoring

·        Networks - components, topologies, internet, world wide web

·        Communications – serial, parallel, synchronous, asynchronous, protocols

Textbook
The following is the required textbook for the course:

The Architecture of Computer Hardware and Systems Software : An Information Technology Approach (2^nd ed.), by Irv Englander, published by John Wiley & Sons, 2000.

 

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Lecture Notes (Power Point files)

·        0. What is a computer? ·        1. Number systems ·        2. Data formats ·        3. Representing integer data ·        4. Floating-point numbers ·        5. Little man computer (deleted) ·        6. The CPU and memory ·        7. Input/output ·        8. I/O buses and interfaces ·        9. Computer peripherals – I ·        10. Computer peripherals – II ·        11. Computer peripherals – III

Java Notes (PDF files)

·        Getting Started

·        Primitive Data Types

·        Operators

·        Relational Expressions

·        Precedence of Operators

·        Keyboard Input

·        Strings

·        Program Flow – Choices

·        Program Flow – Loops

·        Organization of Java

·        Wrapper Classes

·        Math Class

·        String Tokenizer Class

·        Class Hierarchy Update

·        Redirection and Pipes

·        Stream Classes and File I/O

·        System Class

·        String Buffer Class

·        Random Class

·        Date and Time Classes

·        Defining Methods – Why?

·        Method Syntax

·        Formatted Output

·        Input Validation

·        Recursion

·        Debugging

·        Pass by Reference vs. Pass by Value

·        Variable Scope – Revisited

·        Key Points

·        Arrays

·        Vectors

·        Key Points – Arrays and Vectors