Eastern Mediterranean University
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
Course Code
Comp 191
Academic Year
2004-2005
Course
Title
Academic
Term
Introduction to Computers
Course
Credit
Fall
e-mail
Instructor(s)
Assistant(s)
Course
Objectives
Office
Tel.
Pinar Tolga (Gr. 01)
Pinar.tolga@emu.edu.tr
AS350
2281
Mustafa Babagil (Gr. 02)
Mustafa.babagil@emu.edu.tr
AS227
1032
Mustafa Riza ( Gr. 03)
Mustafa.riza@emu.edu.tr
AS228
1459
Safak Güzoglu (Gr. 04)
Safak.guzoglu@emu.edu.tr
AS227
1032
Arif Akkeles (Gr. 05)
Arif.akkeles@emu.edu.tr
AS312
2478
Ipek Caltinoglu
Tahir Davutoglu
Ipek.caltinoglu@emu.edu.tr
Tahir.davutoglu@emu.edu.tr
AS349
AS349
1007
1007
Introduction to the world of computers. Hardware components: system unit,
spectrum of input/ output devices. Word processing, desktop publishing,
multimedia, and computer graphics. Programming languages. Internet and
Viruses.
Week 1: Sept 27- Oct 01 (2 Lecture hours)
The Age of Information
Week 2: Oct 04- 08 (2 Lecture hours)
Computer Hardware (Chapter 1)
Week 3: Oct 11- 15 (2 Lecture hours)
Computer Hardware
Week 4: Oct 18- 22 (2 Lecture hours)
Computer Software (Chapter 2)
Week 5: Oct 25-Oct 29 (2 Lecture hours)
Computer Software
Week 6: Nov 01- 05 (2 Lecture hours)
The Central Processing Unit (Chapter 3)
Week 7: Nov 08-12 (2 Lecture hours)
The Central Processing Unit
Weekly
Schedule
( 2,1) 2
Week 8: Nov 15- 19 (2 Lecture hours)
Input/Output (Chapter 4)
Week 9: Nov 22- 29
Midterm Examinations Period
Week 10: Nov 30- Dec 03 (2 Lecture hours)
Input/Output
Week 11: Dec 06- 10 (2 Lecture hours)
Storage and Multimedia (Chapter 5)
Week 12: Dec 13- 17 (2 Lecture hours)
Storage and Multimedia
Week 13: Dec 20- 24 (2 Lecture hours)
Networking (Chapter 6)
Week 14: Dec 27- 31 (2 Lecture hours)
Networking
Week 15-17: Jan 03-18
Final Examinations Period
Textbook(s) /
Required
Reading
Grading Criteria
Academic
Honesty
Additional
Remarks
H.L.CAPRON, “Computers: Tools for an information Age”, Sixth Edition, Prentice Hall,
2000.
Midterm Examination 1: 25%
Midterm Examination 2: 25%
Final Examination: 30%
Lab: 20%
Individual accountability for all individual work, written or oral. Copying from others or
providing answers or information, written or oral, to others is cheating. Providing proper
acknowledgment of original author. Copying from another student’s paper or from
another text without written acknowledgement is plagiarism. According to University’s
bylaws cheating and plagiarism are serious offences resulting in a failure from exam
or project and disciplinary action (which includes an official warning may appear in
student’s transcript or/and suspension from University for up to one semester).
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Students with attendance less than 80% in lectures will be given NG grade.
There will be one make-up exam for the students who missed either the mid-terms
or the final exam. The make-up exam will be administered after the final exams.