Course Notes

Notes are mainly summaries of the lectures based on the textbook, plus slides of supplementary materials. The slides are in PDF file format. You may download a free copy of Adobe Reader to read PDF files.

1. Introduction to Information Technology (Chapter 1).

2. Understanding Digitall Domain (Chapter 2); guest speakers (Don Harper and Rob Traub, IT Support Department of the CECS) on the organization of the IT department within the College of Engineering and Computer Science.

3. Representation of Numbers and Texts (Chapter 3); examples of binary numbers, texts in ASCII and Unicodes

4. Guest speaker (Stan Duffendack, UCF IT Internship Director) on issues and challenges faced by IT professionals, and how to prepare yourself.

5. Representation of Numbers and Texts (Chapter 3, cont'd)); two examples of converting decimal numbers to floating-point representation in IEEE 754-1985 standards: 1 and 2

6. Computer hardware (Chapter 4), plus discussions of Assignment #2.

7. Computer hardware (Chapter 4, cont'd).

8. Software (Chapter 5), plus discussions of Assignment #3.

9. Software (Chapter 5, cont'd).

10. Digital Audio Technology (Chapter 6), plus discussions of Assignment #2's answer key.

11. Computer Forensics Overview, page 30 added 12/02/2008.

12. Test #1

13. Digital Images and Video (Chapter 7)

14. Fundamentals of Communications (Chapter 8)

15. Unix Tutorial

16. Discussion of Assignment #5.

17. Unix Tutorial cont'd.

18. Discussion of Assignment #6.

19. Discussion of Assignment #6, cont'd; Introduction of Fibre Optics (Chapter 9).

20. Wireless Communications (Chapter 10)

21. Local Area Networks (Chapter 11)

22. PHP/MySQL Tutorial, guest presentation by Michael Powell; and three PHP examples conatined in: a zip file

23. Wide Area Networks (Chapter 12)

24. Test #2

25. Network Security (Chapter 15); Test #2 returned and PHP Study Instruction discussed.

26. Web Design Project Presentations (Teams B, E, H, and C)

27. Web Design Project Presentations, cont'd (Teams F, A, G, and D)