Course Outline:

1. Introduction
1. Principles of Information Technology
2. Information Technology Practices
3. Information Technology Opportunities
2. A Tour of a Computer System
1. Computing, Storing and Communicating
2. The Reason of Using Information Technology
3. An Introduction to Systems
4. Information Technology in Practice
3. The Concept of Internet and World Wide Web (WWW)
1. The Origin of the Internet
2. Capabilities of the Internet
3. Browsing the World Wide Web
4. The Central Processor Unit and Memory
1. The CPU
2. Memory
3. Inside the System Unit
4. The Processing Sequence
5. Processor Speed
5. Secondary Storage and Input/Output Devices
1. Secondary Storage
2. Input Devices
3. Output and Information
6. Single User Systems
1. Electronic Spreadsheets
2. Database Applications for Personal Productivity
3. Multimedia Presentations
4. Developing Single-User Systems
7. Multiuser Systems
1. Multiuser and Network Computing
2. Shared and Distributed Data
3. Developing Shared IT Applications
4. Business Information Systems and Information Technology in
Industry
8. IT Issues and Opportunities
1. Privacy
2. Ethics
3. Reliability
4. Software Piracy
 5. Computer Crime and System Intrusion
9. The Information Age
1. The Convergence of the Three Information Technologies
2. Toward an Information Superhighway