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The document provides an overview of information technology (IT). It defines IT as the technology used for processing data, information, and knowledge through the study and use of computers and related systems like communication systems. It explains that IT combines computer technology with communication technology. The main branches of IT are computer science, information technology, and computer engineering. IT deals with using electronics, computers, computer software, and telecommunications to store, process, transmit, and retrieve information.

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Fundamentals of IT Slides

The document provides an overview of information technology (IT). It defines IT as the technology used for processing data, information, and knowledge through the study and use of computers and related systems like communication systems. It explains that IT combines computer technology with communication technology. The main branches of IT are computer science, information technology, and computer engineering. IT deals with using electronics, computers, computer software, and telecommunications to store, process, transmit, and retrieve information.

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Fundamentals of IT

Prof. Muhammad Yousaf Samdani


Lecture # 1

• What is IT?
• An abbreviation of Information Technology.
• Definition: As it pertains to technology, Information Technology
(IT) is the "technology" used for the study, understanding, planning,
design, construction, testing, distribution, support and operations of
software, computers and computer related systems (like
communication system) that exist for the purpose of Data,
Information and Knowledge processing.
EXPLANATION IN A SIMPLE WAY

When computer and communications technologies are


combined, the result is information technology, sometimes
called "infotech."Information technology is a general term that
describes any technology that helps to produce, manipulate,
store, communicate, and/or disseminate information.

Computer Tech + Communication Tech = InfoTech


Branches of information technology
1. Computer Science
2. Information Technology – refers to the application
of computer science, that is, its use by mankind
Information and Communications
3. Computer engineering )
IT deals with the use of [electronics | electronic] [computer]s
and [computer software] to convert, store, protect, process,
[Transmission (telecommunications)|transmit], and retrieve
information.
Computer science 
or 
computing science (sometimes abbreviated CS)

It is the study of the theoretical foundations


of information and computation, and of
practical techniques for their implementation
and application in computer systems
Software and Hardware
Software Hardware
• Series of instructions that • Physical Components of
tells hardware how to ComputerComputer
perform tasks
System software is computer software designed to operate the 
computer hardware and to provide and maintain a platform for
running application software.[1][2]
The most basic types of system software are:
The computer BIOS and device firmware, which provide basic
functionality to operate and control the hardware connected to
or built into the computer.
The operating system (prominent examples being 
Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux), which allows
the parts of a computer to work together by performing tasks
like transferring data between memory and disks or rendering
output onto a display device. It also provides a platform to run
high-level system software and application software.
Utility software, which helps to analyze, configure, optimize
and maintain the computer.
What is ICT ? 

The term ICT might be still strange to some, confusing to others and yet
misunderstood by an even larger number of well-intentioned colleagues.
For many there may appear to be no difference between 'IT' and 'ICT' -
and in fact for those who have a good understanding of what teachers of
IT were actually teaching some 20 years ago there is no difference - as
the definitions on the next page may prove!
The definition of ICT : The use of information in order to meet human
need or purpose including reference to the use of contemporary devices
such as the Internet.  
Why are we using ICT? 
Of all the possible applications, am I using the most appropriate? Who
is my audience?  What constraints must I recognise?
What additional benefits can this application deliver? etc, etc.
 

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