Catalog Description

Skills, concepts, and capabilities associated with Information Technology. Fundamentals of hardware, software, human-computer interfaces, networking, multi-media, databases, ecommerce, privacy and digital security. Project oriented hands-on approach.

Prerequisites:

NONE, 3hrs

Lab Sections:

All sections meet in CH 435, go to section page

Instructors:

Office Hours:

N/A

Text:

Snyder, Fluency with Information Technology: Skills Concepts, & Capabilities, 4th edition, Addison Wesley, ISBN 9780136091820

Overview

This course gives students the experience, knowledge, and capabilities needed to apply information technology effectively throughout their lives. In addition to computer literacy (immediately useful skills), fluency involves problem solving, reasoning and complexity management to prepare students to use computers today and to be effective technology users tomorrow.

This is an intense, hands-on, project/paper driven course. It is aimed at students who have no intention of becoming CIS majors, as well as potential CIS majors who lack a sound IT foundation.

Classes will be a mixture of lecture, demonstration, and structured lab work, leading to a major term project.

Lecture and labs are both mandatory.

There will be a quiz at the end of each lecture.

Grades are based on the final project (45%), the lab assignments (45%), and class/lecture participation (10%). You must make at least 60% lab attendance to get a grade higher than 'D'.

Each student's work is due by the last day their section meets.

Course Outline:

HTML Links

• W3Schools HTML Tutorial: One of the best. Has links that allow you to experiment with HTML code on-line.
• W3Schools JavaScript Tutoral: Excellent as well. In the same format as the above HTML tutorial.

Syllabus

CS 101 Spring 2012 Syllabus