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Faculty:
Title:
Computers in Society, the Past through 2000
Catalog
Data:
Introduction to computers, their applications, and impact on people
and social institutions; the Internet, E-mail, news groups, telnet,
ftp, World Wide Web, multimedia, word processing, spreadsheets,
databases.
(3 hrs. credit
- 2 hrs. lecture; 2 hrs. lab)
Text book:
Beekman, "Computer Currents", Benjamin Cummings
Software:
Windows NT, Microsoft Office, Netscape and other PC software
Goals:
To introduce students to current computer technologies in hardware
and software.
Prereq:
Credit in Math
1020 or Math 1021 or registration in Math 1023
Syllabus
& Course Topics:
- Computer hardware
- Computer software categories including operating systems
- Information Superhighway - the Internet and network utilities
- E-mail
- LSU tiger accounts (registration and e-mail)
- Netiquette, ethics, digital tricks of the trade
- Newsgroups & USENET News
- How to subscribe, read, and post news; threads; FAQs
- World Wide Web
- How to browse the web and how to create web pages using HTML
- Multimedia
- Word-processing
- Spreadsheets
- Values, labels, formulas
- Copy, format, alignment, sorting, relative and absolute addressing
- Computer Crime and Ethics
- Databases
- Field definition, index files, sorting, reports, where clause, and
subsets
- Graphics
- Graphs in databases and spreadsheets
- Visualization
- Bitmapped
- Virtual Reality
- Problem solving and pseudocode
- Problem solving
- Sequence structures, Selection structures, Iterative structures
- Computers at work
- Changing nature of work
- Manufacturing, Retailing, Health Care, Government, Military, and
Education
- Computer Careers
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