COMPUTER SCIENCE M - Z
Academic Year 2018/2019 - 1° Year
Teaching Staff: Mario Massimiliano Salfi
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: INF/01 - Informatics
Taught classes: 42 hours
Semester: 1°
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: INF/01 - Informatics
Taught classes: 42 hours
Semester: 1°
Course Structure
The course includes theoretical lessons, practical lessons about the use of the computer and the Microsoft Office package and theoretical exercises.
Detailed Course Content
- Introduction to computer science.
- Encoding and representation of information.
- Architecture of computer.
- The operating system and application software.
- Computer networks and the internet.
- Introduction to databases.
- Elements of artificial intelligence.
- Word processors: Microsoft Word.
- Spreadsheets: Microsoft Excel.
- Databases: Microsoft Access.
- Presentation programs: Microsoft PowerPoint.
Textbook Information
Teacher’s slides
From 1 to 5: Informatica e Cultura dell’Informazione, Luca Mari, Giacomo Bonanno e Donatella Sciuto
7: Intelligenza artificiale. un approccio moderno. Volume 1, Russell, Stuart J.
For Microsoft Office: qany ECDL (European Computer Driver Licence) book or MOS (Microsoft Office Specialist) book.
6: Big data. Una rivoluzione che trasformerà il nostro modo di vivere e già minaccia la nostra libertà. Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Kenneth N. Cukier e R. Merlini