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2012-2013 Academic Catalogue 
    
2012-2013 Academic Catalogue [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ITD 111 - Introduction to Information Technology


Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Credit Hours: 3

This course is an introductory survey of the scope of information technology and design. This course provides an exposure and a foundation from which cadets can appreciate the relevance and interrelationships of future courses in the ITD minor. This course and the text follow a bottom-up arrangement of subjects from the concrete to the abstract. The course begins a discussion of techniques to analyze information needs. Next, we study basics of information encoding and computer architecture, and move on to the study of operating systems and computer networks. After that, we investigate the topics of algorithms, databases, programming, data structures, software development, human computer interaction, and computer graphics. We conclude with a brief overview of the history of information technology. Prerequisite(s): none.