Course Information

• Course Number : IT 103
• Course Title: Introduction to Computing
• Semester: Summer 2013
• Class Day/Time: Internet
• Instructor: Ioulia Rytikova
• Textbooks:
  1. Introduction to Computer Information Systems, Geoffrey Steinberg, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company Kendall/Hunt Website
  2. Fundamentals of Computing, Third Edition, Kamaljeet Sanghera, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company Textbook Website
• Catalog Info: IT 103

My Experience With This Course

IT 103, Introduction to Computing, is a course that covers a surprisingly broad range of topics. I took the on-line version of this course during the summer session, so it was quite fast-paced. There were actually two distinct segments of this course: (1) a lecture segment that used content from the Introduction to Computer Information Systems textbook and (2) a lab segment that used exercises from the Fundamentals of Computing textbook. There was also a requirement to write a research paper and present it on a website. This task spanned topics in both the lecture and lab segments.

Topics in the lecture segment included:

• the internet and the World Wide Web
• computer hardware
• computer software
• data communications and networking
• security, ethics and privacy

Topics in the lab segment included:

• using the internet for research
• MS Excel
• MS Access
• creating a blog
• creating a website using XHTML

My favorite parts of this course were creating the blog and the website.