Syllabus 2011/2012 EDA070

Syllabus academic year 2011/2012
(Created 2011-09-01.)

COMPUTER INTRODUCTION

EDA070

Credits: 3. Grading scale: UG. Cycle: G1 (First Cycle). Main field: Technology. Language of instruction: The course will be given in Swedish. Compulsory for: D1. Course coordinator: Per Holm, Per.Holm@cs.lth.se, Computer Science. Assessment: To qualify for a passing grade, the students must have completed the compulsory laboratory exercises. Home page: http://cs.lth.se/eda070.

Aim
Computer science and engineering is a broad area where many techniques and tools are used. The course gives the students an opportunity to use some of them, especially those that are used later during their studies.

Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must

know about different operating systems, especially Unix
be familiar with the fundamentals of computer architecture, how computers are programmed at the assembly language level and how computers communicate over Internet

Skills and abilities
For a passing grade the student must

be able to use LaTeX for typesetting and Matlab to solve mathematical problems

Contents
Practical use of computers, operating systems; computer history, the parts of a computer and how a computer works, low-level programming; typesetting with LaTeX; Internet and the WWW; introduction to Matlab.

Literature
Course material provided by the department.