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S H NUST Islamabad: Skills Development

The document outlines a skills development course on information technologies taught at NUST Islamabad in Fall 2021, including an introduction to the course, learning objectives, weekly topics covering operating systems, applications like Word and Excel, and assessment criteria with exams, assignments, and class participation accounting for the grade. The course is designed to give students practical and theoretical concepts of IT to help in their studies and future work.

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S H NUST Islamabad: Skills Development

The document outlines a skills development course on information technologies taught at NUST Islamabad in Fall 2021, including an introduction to the course, learning objectives, weekly topics covering operating systems, applications like Word and Excel, and assessment criteria with exams, assignments, and class participation accounting for the grade. The course is designed to give students practical and theoretical concepts of IT to help in their studies and future work.

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S H NUST Islamabad
Skills Development
Fall 2021
Instructor
Muhammad Farhan, M.B.A (H.R.M), M.Sc (Economics ) & M.S (Public Policy) (South Korea)
Visiting Teaching Faculty
Cell No. 0333-5501730

Venue & Class timings


Computer Lab 01
Thursday 09:00 -- 11:40

Introduction
This course is designed to give the students an exposure of the theoretical as well as practical concepts of
Information technologies. It would help in gaining an understanding of applying IT in their work as student and in
future. The students are expected to gain an understanding and be able to use a personal computer and common
computer applications at a recognized level of competence. The topics included in course are: the basics of
computing, introduction to networking and the internet, operating systems, storage devices, email, search engines
and introduction to databases; manipulate text and graphics and documents; use office tools such as MS Excel,
MS PowerPoint and understand and relate immense possibilities offered by such systems in today’s challenges.

Learning Objectives
At the end of the course students would be able to:
 Identify the various parts of a computer system and what each does.
 Identify various operating systems, major software applications packages and what they do.
 Have a working knowledge of Microsoft Office software.
 Have a working knowledge of online collaborative tools, presentation tool, online survey tool, reference
manager and portfolio management tool.

Text Book
 Text Book: Understanding Computers: Today and Tomorrow, Comprehensive 13th Edition by Deborah
Morley and Charles S. Parker  (available in PDF)

Lecture Notes and reading material


 All slides, handouts and audio lectures would be provided by instructor using LMS
Weekly Lecture plan
Weeks Topics
Introductory Session
1
Introduction
2  Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
 The Analytical Engine
 Ada, Countess of Lovelace (1815-52)
 Course Contents & Structure

Evolution of Computing
 Turning Machine -1936
 The “Turing test”
 Vacuum Tube – 1904
 ABC – 1939
 Harvard Mark 1 – 1943
 ENIAC – 1946
 Transistor – 1947
 Floppy Disk – 1950
 UNIVAC 1 – 1951
 Compiler -1952
 ARPANET – 1969
 Intel 4004 – 1971
 Altair 8800 – 1975
 Cray 1 – 1976
 IBM PC – 1981
 Apple Macintosh – 1984
 Word Wide Web – 1989

Introduction to Information Technology

3 Introduction to Computer Systems


 Computer Hardware
 Computer Types According to Capability
 System architectures
 Client-server computing
 Centra Processing Unit
 Input Devices
 Output Devices
 Storage devices
Software and Operating Systems
 System software
 Programming tools and language translators
 Application software
 Key Operating system commands
Introduction to Computer Science
 What is Computer Science?
 Computer Science Applications
 Local Job Market
 International Job Market
 Are you not a student of Computer Science?

Browser
 URL
4  What is a Web site?
 What is Home Page of a web site?
 Who invented the Web & Why?
 Future of the Web: Semantic Web
 Useful Web page
Search Engines
 Searching Tricks
 Search Operators
 Advance Search Operators
 What we should not search on Internet

5-7 Microsoft Word complete


8 MID TERM
9 Basic concepts of Information and Communication
Technology
10-12 Microsoft Excel Complete
Using Excel for Data Analysis and Charts
13-14 Microsoft Power Point complete
Effective Presentation Strategies
15 Social Media use in E-Government
16 FINAL WRITTEN EXAM

Assessment Criteria

Class Participation 5%
Assignments (2 in total) 10%
Quiz 10%
Written Exam (Midterm) 25%
Final Written Exam 50%
Note:
Instructor may change the assessment criteria later based on class position.
Midterm written exam and would be held in accordance with University datasheet and announcements.

Attendance and other policies


 Students are expected to attend all lectures, and be on time. Those coming late in the class after 15
minutes will be marked absent.
 Assignments must be submitted on time and no extensions will be in given in the deadline.
 Copying and Plagiarism will not be tolerated and will be dealt seriously.
 No retakes of missed mids or final exams for any reason

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