Computer Skills & Programming

Concepts I
UEC01 – PCD104 – PCC104 – HGCP101
Lectures 1-6
Course Coordinator: Assoc. Prof. Mohamed Ismail Badawi

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 Computer Skills & Programming
Concepts I

UEC01 – PCD104 – PCC104 – HGCP101

I. Computer Essentials
Lectures 1-6
Course Coordinator: Assoc. Prof. Mohamed Ismail Badawi

PUA – Computer Center – UEC01

Course Coordinator:
Assoc. Prof. Mohamed Ismail Badawi
Instructors:

▪Eng. Mohamed Ahmed Taha

▪Eng. Maher Habashy

▪Eng. Angy Saleh

▪Eng. Yasser Abd El Aziz

▪Eng. Reham Refaat

▪Eng. Nehal Essam

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Recommended Textbooks:
 Deborah Morley, and Charles S.Parker, “Understanding
Computers: Today and Tomorrow”, Thomson Course
Technology, 2022.
 H.L Capron – J.A.Johnson, “Computer: tools for an
Information Age” 2022.
 ECDL Foundation Approved Courseware,
Module: Computer Essentials, 2022

Videos
• https://www.gcflearnfree.org
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Course Overview
❖Computer Essentials
• Introduction to computers: Basic concepts, Data
Representation, Computer categories, computer system
components Hardware and Software and computer
Applications
• Using operating system (Windows 10)
❖Using Microsoft office package
• Document Production using Word Processing
• Presentations using Power Point
❖ Communication and Internet Technologies
• Types of computer networks, Internet protocol, Internet
services
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Course Objectives

• Why it is important to learn about computers today

and discuss several ways computers are joined into our
business and personal lives.
• Define a computer and describe its primary
operations.
• Identify the major parts of a personal computer,
including input, processing, output, storage, and
communications hardware.
• Define software and understand how it is used to
instruct the computer what to do.
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Course Objectives Cont’d

• Explain what a network, the Internet, and the World

Wide Web are, as well as how computers, people, and
Web pages are identified on the Internet.
• Understand the basics of e-mail programs and web
browsing.
• Create documents using formatting options, creating
headers and footers and inserting images.
• Creating presentation using themes and background
styles. Appling animation to different objects.

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 Grading

• Practical Assignments & Quizzes: 40%

• Midterm 10%

• Final Practical: 30%

• Final Exam : 20%

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Interactive Learning Methods

• Students will examine interactive learning using

presentations.
• Applying mini-projects implementation during lab
sessions.
• Individual assignments will be required and
assessed weekly during lab session.

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Attendance and Warnings
• Attendance will be calculated for both lectures
and practical sessions.
• Warnings and forced withdraw (FW) will be
announced on “student absent report” on your
Power Campus account according to: -
• In case student’s absence reached (in Lectures
or Practical):
• 10%, student will receive warning 1.
• 20 %, student will receive warning 2.
• 25%, student will be Forced Withdraw (FW).
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 Introduction to Computers
❖ Why learn about Computer and Technology?
 Whether you are teacher, doctor, engineer, restaurant
manager, salesperson or musician, computers are used to
obtain information and to communicate with others.
 Computer can be used without understanding the technical
details of how it works. However, knowing about computer
help you buy the right one for your needs.
 Therefore, Computer literacy – knowing about and
understanding computers and their uses -is an essential skill
for everyone.

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 ❖ Computer Generations
 The history of computers is often referred to in terms of
Generations
 Each new generation is characterized by
a major technological development
 First-generation computers: Vacuum tubes.
 Second-generation computers: Transistors.
 Third-generation computers: Integrated circuits(ICs)
 Fourth-generation computers:
 Ultra Large-Scale Integration (ULSI) for Microprocessors.
 Fifth-generation computers
 Advanced Computers and Robots based on Artificial Intelligence
(AI)
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 Where Computers Are Used?
1-Computing devices in the home
 Home computing: Computer is used in Watching TV, videos and Downloading
music and movies, paying bills.
 Smart devices such as refrigerators, ovens, Monitoring air conditioning on or off
2-Computing devices in Education
 College campus have a wireless hotspots that allow students to connect their devices
wirelessly to internet.
 Distance learning: Students participate from locations other than the traditional
classroom using computers and Internet access.
3-Computing devices On the Job
 Computer is used at all types of businesses, Including:
 Traveling sales professionals
 Police officers

4-Computing devices On the Go

 ATM transactions.
 GPS systems.
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End of Lecture 1