Degree Course: COMUNICAZIONE, TECNOLOGIE E CULTURE DIGITALI (L-20) Syllabus for A.Y. 2016/2017  

Presentation
The course deals with the issues and tools related to the data dissemination on the Web, facing them from a dual perspective: on the one hand, the study and use of technologies for the production of data, on the other, methods for their retrieval and analysis.

Goals
The course represents the first computer science teaching and provides the basics of this discipline. At the end of the course the student will be able to understand the structure and the functioning of a computer; what is Internet and how it works; the representation of the information; the production of content for the Web, the search of content on the Web and its analysis. The course introduces the use of Kompozer, MySQL and Wordpress.
At the end of the course the student is expected to have the following knowledge:
• Basic knowledge of the structure and operation of a personal computer, computer networks, the impact of these technologies on society and everyday life.
• Knowledge of a computer architecture and its abstraction with the Von Neumann machine; the basic functions of a personal computer and its operating system, file system, memory and access methods; algorithm definition, and Boolean algebra elements.
• knowledge of binary representation of information (integer, floating-point, character encoding with ASCII and UNICODE).
• Knowledge of the structure of networks, Internet, server client sw and hw architectures; communication protocols.
• Knowledge of WEB and its technologies; HTML5 and CSS.
• Knowledge of the fundamentals of a DBMS and query and data manipulation languages.
• Knowledge of a Content Management System and its functioning

At the end of the course the student is expected to have the following skills:
- Ability to recognize and describe the structure of a computer;
- ability to convert a data to the most suitable binary representation;
- Ability to create a simple site in Html5 using Kompozer;
- Ability to basically use MySQL; to create a table, to enter data, and to query them.
- Ability to use the Xampp environment and to create a blog in Wordpress by choosing a theme and inserting plug-ins.

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