Hands-on experience with microcomputers. The individual software application packages may include communications, database management, graphics, spreadsheet, and word processing modules. Topics covered will be internal commands, directories, backup procedures, and editors. An elementary study of the principles of economics related to relative scarcity and resource allocation. The course provides a basic study of a market economy and various kinds of market structures.
Some time is devoted to cost and to labor economics.
3 credits C Programming provides special problem solving and program design capabilities in a wide range of programming environments. This course emphasizes the characteristics which distinguish C from other programming languages. Students will use the modular programming techniques, documentation within C code, pointers, memory management, and libraries and files. This course is designed for the advanced Information Systems student. The course outlines interconnecting computers using communication networks.