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CAP 107
Introduction To Computers
Welcome to CAP 107
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Lecturer: Reham Al-Abdul Jabbar
Email: [email protected]
Office location: room#42, Bld. 20
Office hours: check my webpage.
Important Preparations…
See course web site for:
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Lecture Notes
Practical Questions
http://www.ksu-it.com/cap107/
Teaching Arrangements
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One, 1 hour 50 minute lecture each week
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Tuesday 8 - 9:45
In room # 3, building 20
Practical
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One, 1 hour and 50 minute practical session
each week.
Starting this week.
Vital to you passing CAP107.
Your attendance will be recorded.
You must only hand in your own work
A significant proportion of marks comes from
practical work.
Assessment
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Assessment is what you do to get your marks.
Assessment for CAP107 is made up of a
combination of your performance in
practical exercises, in quizzes and in exams.
Made up from:
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2 midterms each 15%
Lab 30% ( Word , Excel, Dos exams and sheets)
Final 40%
Exam Schedule
Midterm1
Midterm2
Word, Excel, Dos
exams
Monday
1/4/1429
7/4/2008
Monday
29/4/1429
5/5/2008
TBA
12-1
12-1
Lab Time
Help…
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If you have a problem that you know
you can't solve by yourself don't
hesitate, see someone:
Lecturers or TAs - a technical problem
with a practical or concept from the
lectures or the textbook that you don't
understand
Ask during the lecture or see in person
during OHs
Text books (3)
1- Computer Confluence: Tomorrow's Technology and
you, by George Beekman and Michael J. Quinn,
7th or 8th edition.
Text Books (cont’d)
2- Word 2003 step by
step.
3 - Excel 2003 step by
step.
Course content
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Chapter 0 (Appendix A): An Overview
of Computers and Programming
Languages
Chapter 1: Our digital planet
Chapter 2: HW basics: inside the box
Chapter 3: HW basics: Peripherals
Chapter 4:SW basics
Syllabus
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1- PC Hardware basics.
2- PC Software basics.
3- File management basics.
4- Network and internet basics.
5- Evaluation and acceleration: transistors, I.C.,…
6- The microcomputer revaluation
7- Computers today: mainframes, supercomputers,…..
8-computer connections.
9- Bit basics.
10- Central processing unit (CPU).
11- The computer’s memory.
12- Buses, ports, and peripherals.
13- Input devices.
14- Output devices.
15- Storage devices.
16- The language of computers.
17- Software applications.
18- System software.
19- Desktop operating system.
20- Multiple user operating systems.