Introduction to Digital Systems

Learning Outcomes

Students are expected to:

• have understood the basic principles of Information Technology
• have acquired basic IT knowledge and skills
• know the basics of PC hardware so they understand how it works
• can develop simple programs
• are able to connect securely to the Internet
• leverage software applications to increase their productivity
• apply the above in practice

Indicative Module Content

• Computing principles
• History of computing
• Turing Machine
• Arithmetic Systems
• Digital Electronics and Boolean Algebra
• Structure and operation of computer
• Operating Systems Fundamentals
• Introduction to Software Engineering
• Programming languages
• Communication systems
• Networks and the Internet
• Data structures
• Database applications
• Security and cryptography
• Pattern recongition
• Data Compression
• Error-Correcting Codes