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Course Background
This course provides an introduction to some of the most important features of present-day computer systems. You will learn how computers work and how they are used to solve problems. In order to concentrate your studies on one particular type of computer system, a Microsoft Windows-based personal computer is used as the primary example.
This course is organized into six units. Each unit contains information in the form of textbook readings, Web notes readings, and learning exercises designed to help you understand the material. Each unit also has several quizzes and a homework exercise, which allow you to demonstrate your knowledge of the material. There are three exams, one occurring after every two units. In the course Help pages, you can read about how to work through the quizzes, exercises, and exams. Please note that several of the pages in this course contain links to Web sites outside the iCarnegie site, and from time to time one or another of these sites become temporarily unavailable, causing the course links to them to fail.
A Course Project is required for students to complete at the end of this course. This is a group project of 2 to 3 students in size and requires that students work together as a "company" on a project to design a computer network system for a school. This will require that students put together a powerpoint slide of their proposal and give a 5 minute presentation in class. Details of the class proposal are as follows:
SSD2 Class Project
**NOTE ON TAKING ONLINE ICARNEGIE EXAMS**
Unit & Final Multiple Choice Exams
– Students cannot use any online or book material while taking the multiple choice tests.
Unit 1 Computer Systems Useful Information and Links:
Click here for a complete listing of binary, hexidecimal, and other conversion tables.
Unit 2 Hardware Systems Useful Information and Links:
Unit 3 Useful Information and Links:
Unit 4 Useful Information and Links:
Unit 5 Useful Information and Links:
- Network Systems
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- More information to come....
Unit 6 Useful Information and Links:
udp_user_datagram_protocol.htm
If you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail Bob at:bscheele@bscheele.com
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