Course detail
Information Technology
FAST-BU01Acad. year: 2009/2010
Computer technology - principle of activity, main PC components, processor activity and control action, cooperation with memory, input/output devices
Operating system signification and using, structure and classification
OS application from the user point of view (Unix, graphic interfaces, network operating systems, Windows)
Computer networks, Internet (principle of computer networks, network protocols and services)
Computer data processing
Bases of computer graphic
Text processing and principles of typography
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Department
Learning outcomes of the course unit
Principles of Computer hardware
Architecture of operating systems
Principles of computer networks
Basics of database technology
Principles of computer graphics
Basics of desktop publishing and computer typography
Working knowledge of using spreadsheets in engineering calculation
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
Course curriculum
2. Program and subroutines, stack, CPU registers, I/O system, IRQ, DMA, I/O ports, I/O bus (ISA, PCI, AGP)
3. Basic input/output periferal devices: keyboard, monitor, disk memory
4. Standard PC interfaces: parallel and serial ports, USB
5. Operations principles of standard periferals
6. Operating systems: meaning and classification. Windows and Unix OS, file system structure in various types of OS, booting of OS.
7. User interface in Windows and Unix
8-9. Basics of Data Mangement. Data models, relational model, DB system architecture.
10. Primary and foreign keys, data integrity and consistency, bussines rules and constraints, query languages.
11-12. Computer Graphics, vector and raster formats, palettes, color spaces, graphic primitives, main technologies: rendering, shading, ray-tracing.
13. Basics of computer typography, typeface and its classification, typographical units, type setting and typographic composition, text and format processors, markup format languages.
Training: engineering data manipulation in spreadsheet - design of tables, formulas, charts, database applications, optimization
Work placements
Aims
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Recommended optional programme components
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Recommended reading
Kolektiv AIU FAST: Soubor elektronických učebních textů. FAST VUT Brno, 2000. [http://www.fce.vutbr.cz/studium/literatura] (CS)
Milenkovic, M.: Operating Systems: Concepts and Design, Second Edition. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1992. (EN)
NOVOTNÁ, H. a kol.: Základy informatiky. FAST VUT Brno, elektronické studijní opory, 2009. (CS)
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme B-P-E-SI Bachelor's
branch VS , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
- Programme B-K-C-SI Bachelor's
branch VS , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
- Programme B-P-C-SI Bachelor's
branch VS , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
- Programme B-P-C-ST Bachelor's
branch VS , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory