This course introduces students to software that controls hardware and makes the hardware usable. Its interaction with other computer devises and how it controls other computer processes is explored.Aims: The course aims to:
Provide students with a detailed understanding of how operating systems work
Provide students with skills to write basic programs to utilize underlying operating system infrastructures.
Course Description: The topics covered in this course are: HTML editors; website management tools such as FrontPage and/or Dream weaver; basic Internet technologies such as DNS, email services, LDAP and the HTTP protocol. The practical part of this course introduces tools and techniques for specifying and prototyping interactive World Wide Web applications based on HTML. Web technologies: HTTP Protocol, Presentation abstractions, Web-markup and display languages.
This course covers: Introduction to the interdisciplinary area of Human Computer Interaction (HCI); the underlying principles of psychology, computer science and ergonomics that influence theory and practice of HCI design and usage; specific topics will include: models of human information processing, organizational structures and socio-technical approaches to information system design; design principles for dialogue management; issues of systems user-ability; hypertext; natural language processing; virtual reality and multimedia applications.
