A course designed to give students an appreciation of computers, to demonstrate their influence and application in everyday situations, and allow students to make use of computers throughout their lives.
Special emphasis is placed on learning to make use of the Internet.
This course examines computer programming using Visual Basic. Special emphasis is placed on developing simple interactive applications on the Windows platform. An introduction to computer graphics, video animation, sound and multimedia. An introduction to digital computation, fundamental problem solving, history and overview of computers and programming languages, programming syntax, control structures, recursive procedures, programing logic, the user interface, file input and output, program verification and documentation. A continuing introduction to digital computation.