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)

Textbook: 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:

1. Credit in Math 1020 or Math 1021 or registration in Math 1023

1. Computer hardware
2. Computer software categories including operating systems
3. Information Superhighway - the Internet and network utilities
4. E-mail
   • LSU tiger accounts (registration and e-mail)
   • Netiquette, ethics, digital tricks of the trade
5. Newsgroups & USENET News
   • How to subscribe, read, and post news; threads; FAQs
6. World Wide Web
   • How to browse the web and how to create web pages using HTML
7. Multimedia
8. Word-processing
9. Spreadsheets
   • Values, labels, formulas
   • Copy, format, alignment, sorting, relative and absolute addressing
10. Computer Crime and Ethics
11. Databases
    • Field definition, index files, sorting, reports, where clause, and subsets
12. Graphics
    • Graphs in databases and spreadsheets
    • Visualization
    • Bitmapped
13. Virtual Reality
14. Problem solving and pseudocode
15. Problem solving
    • Sequence structures, Selection structures, Iterative structures
16. Computers at work
    • Changing nature of work
    • Manufacturing, Retailing, Health Care, Government, Military, and Education
17. Computer Careers

The homework list for this course will appear here.

The list of old tests for this course will appear here.