1. STUDY SKILLS AND INTRODUCTION TO THE USE OF COMPUTERS IS50004A

2. Contact • Dr LahcenOuarbya • Office: Room 6, 29 St-James • Email: l.ouarbya@gold.ac.uk • Tel: 0207 7172263 • Office Hours: Thursday 3-4pm

3. Course Outcome • Introduction to the use of computers • Files and folders/directories • Introduction to binary system • Memory • CPU • Logic Gate • Operating Systems • The Internet HTML and XHTML • Introduction to computer networks • Network protocols. • Computer laws

4. Lectures & Labs/workshops • Lectures: • RHB 309 • Time 9 –11am • Labs /workshops • Whitehead Building 316 • Time 11.00-12.00 & 12.00-13.00 • There are two groups A and B, alternate

5. Reading list • Books • White, R. (2002). How Computers Work. 6th Edition. (Indianapolis, Indiana:: QUE, 2002) edition [ISBN 0789725495] • Computer Science: An Overview by J. Glenn Brookshear • New Inside the PC by Peter Norton • William Stallings, (2003). Computer Organization and Architecture: Designing for Performance. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice-Hall. http://williamstallings.com/COA5e.html • NovelsNeuromancer by William Gibson • Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson