Course Outline

Course Outline

December 2012 Session

Course Lecturer: Class/Section:

PROGRAMME AIMS The Diploma in Information Technology (Programming) graduates in Polytechnics, Ministry of Higher Education will have knowledge, technical skills and attitude to adapt themselves with new technological advancement and challenges in Programming fields

COURSE & CODE FP105 - COMPUTING ESSENTIALS

WEEKS 15

CREDIT(S) 3

PREREQUISITE(S) None

SYNOPSIS SYNOPSIS: COMPUTING ESSENTIALS course provides a foundation in the basic Information Technology (IT) knowledge and skills necessary for ICT professionals. Students are exposed to the principles and good practices in environmentally sustainable computing and the use of appropriate technologies and methodologies in managing IT environment. This course provides practical exercises in several areas of Information Technology including personal computer (PC) applications, word processing, spreadsheets, presentation, and web page development.

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to: 1. discuss actively the basic concepts, trends, issues and challenges related to current information

technology. 2. apply appropriate features of a word processing and spreadsheet package to prepare standard

documents, analyze raw data and produce output using window based or open source application.

3. communicate ideas effectively by creating a presentation using appropriate presentation tool and publish it successfully through web pages using HTML tags.

Week (Duration)

Topic No / CLO

CONTACT HOURS/ ASSESSMENT

Reflection

1 (10.12.12 – 16.12.12)

Pendaftaran pelajar

2 (17.12.12 – 21.12.12)

1. BASIC CONCEPTS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND THE INTERNET / CLO 1 Understand the basic concepts and terminology of Information Understand the Internet.

(02:08) Discussion 1

3 (31.12.12 – 6.1.13)

4 (7.1.13 – 13.1.13)

2. GREEN COMPUTING / CLO 1 Understand Green Computing.

(01:04) Discussion 2

5 (14.1.13 – 20.1.13)

3. WORD PROCESSING / CLO 2 Prepare documents using appropriate features of word processing package.

(03:12) Laboratory Exercise

1,2,3

6 (21.1.13 – 27.1.13)

7 (28.1.13 – 3.2.13)

8 (4.2.13 – 10.2.13)

4. SPREADSHEET / CLO 2 Develop a spreadsheet using spreadsheet package


4,5,6

LAMPIRAN 1

REFERENCES : 1. Timothy J. O’Leary and Linda I. O’Leary (2011), Computing Essentials 2011 Complete Edition. McGraw Hill International Edition (ISBN 978-0-07-351678-3). 2. Katherine Murray (2010), Microsoft Office 2010 Plain and Simple (Plain & Simple) Microsoft Press Publishing. (ISBN 978-0735626973) 3. Ed Bott (2010). Microsoft Office 2010 Inside Out. Microsoft Press Publishing (ISBN 978-0735626898) 4. Joe Habraken (2010),Microsoft Office 2010 In Depth. Que Publishing (ISBN 978-0789743091)

Week

(Duration)

Topic

CONTACT HOURS/ ASSESSMENT

Reflection

9 (18.2.13 – 24.2.13)

4. SPREADSHEET / CLO 2 Develop a spreadsheet using spreadsheet package.


4,5,6

10

(25.2.13 – 3.3.13)

11 (4.3.13 – 10.3.13)

5. PRESENTATION / CLO 2 / CLO 3 Develop a presentation using presentation package.

(03:12) Laboratory Exercise 7,8

Problem Based Task

Practical Test

12 (11.3.13 – 17.3.13)

13 (18.3.13 – 24.3.13)

14 (25.3.13 – 31.3.13)

6. HYPERTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE (HTML) / CLO 3 Create web page using HTML.


9,10

Discussion 3

15 (1.4.13 – 7.4.13)

16 (8.4.13 – 8.4.13)

17 (15.4.13 –

21.4.13)

Revision

HTML.

HTML elements.

Structure of framed documents.

18 (22/4/13 –

28/4/13)

FINAL EXAMINATION

19 (29/4/13 –

5/5/13)

FINAL EXAMINATION

COURSEWORK ASSESSMENT PERCENTAGE

Practical Test (1) 20%

Laboratory Exercises (10) 20%

Discussion (3) 30%

Problem Based Task (1) 30%

Prepared by: NOR NAEMATUL SAADAH BINTI ISMAIL Date : 14 December 2012

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