This is an introductory course covering the use and operation of personal computers. Introduction to Word Processing, spreadsheets, and Data Management systems will enhance the student's ability to use personal computers. This course enables students to learn the basics of computer operation, including an introduction to many of the popular application packages. In recent years, computer technology has progressed from large machines operated by specialists to desktop computers operated by nearly everyone. Students learn to use computers and popular management software, to gather information from the Internet, to determine the computing needs for an office or business, to judge and purchase software and computer systems, and to avoid common computer difficulties.
Course is complete in itself, and accessible to beginners.
Serves also as the entry point for a major in Management Information Systems. This course will introduce students to computers and programming. It will begin with a study of computer hardware and software relationships, and a review of common operating systems in use today, with a detailed review of microcomputer operating systems. Then programming language construction and principles will be covered, culminating in problem solving and algorithm development in a high level computing language with several programming projects. Using a modern high-level programming language, this course introduces algorithmic problem solving, basic control structures, basic data structures and procedural abstraction.