Informatics

1. List basics computer parts
2. Classify types of software
3. Explain how computer networks and Internet protocols work
4. Describe basic elements of database management system
5. Describe World Wide Web
6. List basic principles of programming

Lectures, with course material and presentation uploaded in advance on the web.

Preparatory work for the laboratory excercises.

Laboratory exercises organized in three cycles lasting 5 hours within which students will participate in the practical implementation and application of methods, concepts and technologies described in the lectures.

1. Lectures: Computer architecture. Operating systems. Software.
2. Lectures: Open computing. Introduction to programming: algorithm, variables, constants. Programming languages.
3. Lectures: Programming process. Pseudocode.
4. Laboratory exercises: Practical aspects of programming fundamentals.
5. Lectures: Introduction to programming in C#. Basic elements of the C# programming language.
6. Lectures: Developing applications with the C# programming language.
7. Mid-term exam
8. Lectures: Basic concepts of databases.
9. Lectures: Connecting C# applications with databases.
10. Laboratory exercises: Practical implementation of connection to databases based on C# programming language.
11. Lectures: Computer networks. Internet.
12. Lectures: Internet protocol stack.
13. Lectures: Internet services: World Wide Web (WWW), electronic mail (e-mail), file transfer. Security and privacy challenges on Internet.
14. Laboratory exercises: Internet protocols in action.
15. Final exam