COMPUTER SCIENCE

Academic Year 2018/2019 - 1° Year - Curriculum Educatore sociale e di comunità
Teaching Staff: Vincenzo CUTELLO
Credit Value: 10
Scientific field: INF/01 - INFORMATICS
Taught classes: 60 hours
Term / Semester:

Learning Objectives

The course aims to provide a good educational background on some fundamental concepts in Computer Science and Information Technology.


Course Structure

Classroom lectures.


Detailed Course Content

Main topics of the course are:

  • The formalization of the concept of information;
  • Algorithms as foundation of Computer Science. Some basic and well known algorithms.
  • Binary representation and elements of binary logic. Digital representaion of information.
  • Architecture and features of modern processing systems and operating systems
  • Examples of Application Software
  • Topology and structure of modern computer networks; evolution of the Internet, the World Wide Web and related services

Textbook Information

No textbook is required.