Information Technology

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Course ID:	1100-1B02
Erasmus code / ISCED:	11.301 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (unknown)
Course title:	Information Technology
Name in Polish:	Technologia informacyjna
Organizational unit:	Faculty of Physics
Course groups:
Course homepage:	http://brain.fuw.edu.pl/edu/index.php/%22Technologia_informacyjna%22
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	Polish
Type of course:	obligatory courses
Mode:	Classroom
Short description:	Basic understanding of the Digital World - "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Internet and Computers But Were Afraid to Ask"
Full description:	The course aims at full understanding of the basic mechanisms, omnipresent in the contemporary world governed by information. Exercises provide the practical knowledge, needed to use the information technologies during the studies. Program of the lecture: 1. Digital vs. analog. Checksums. 2. Most frequently used programs: text editor, spreadsheet, presentation manager. Databases: why do we need an index? 3. Data formats. ASCII and Unicode. Vector and bitmap graphics. Movies, sound, loseless and loosy compression. 4. From an operator to the operating system. Devices handling, compatibility. Algorithm -> source code -> executable: compilation, errors... 5. URL, packets, route of information in the Internet. Does every computer connected to the Internet needs its own IP number? Dynamic IP, NAT. HTML: the language of WWW. POP3 and WebMail. Instant Messengers. 6. Copyrights and licenses. Open Source, GNU and Freedom of Software. Wikipedia. 7. Digital signature: how does it work? Public key cryptography. 8. Administrator vs. "normal" user. Viruses and data safety. Backups. 9. Mathematical modelling: from Conway's "Life" to weather forecasting. Do computers think? Turing test, artificial neural networks. Program of the exercises: basics of programming in a high-level language (Python, Matlab)
Bibliography:	1. Informatyka podręcznik dla gimnazjum, P. J. Durka. Wydawnictwo Nowa Era, 2007, ISBN 978-83-7409-456-6. 2. Cyfrowy Świat: jak to działa, P. J. Durka. Wydawnictwo Adamantan, Warszawa 2004, ISBN 83-85655-20-4. 3. http://komputer.durka.info 4. http://pl.wikibooks.org/wiki/Zanurkuj_w_Pythonie 5. http://docs.python.org.pl/tut/tut.html
Learning outcomes:	Understanding of the basics of information technologies, checksums, data transfer, computer programs, operating systems, formats of digital data and Internet. Conscious understanding of the basics of IP laws and software licenses, and the existence of Free Software. Basics of the Python programming language.
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	Test exam

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