Course Details
Basics of Computer Science
Academic Year 2024/25
BUA006 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-GK Winter Semester 1st year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
2 credits
Semester
Forms and criteria of assessment
Offered to foreign students
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Processor and memory, memory structure, data representation.
2. Principles of cooperation with peripheral devices, file system.
3.-4. Fundamentals of the Internet and its services.
5.-6. IT security.
7. Basic types of computer infiltration.
8. Computer graphic, representation of the color, palette. Formats of raster graphics data.
9. Vector graphics formats. Graphic primitives, basic graphic simulation technology.
10. Fundamentals of computer typography, fonts, typography measures, page format and publishing, basic programs for word processing, page description languages.
11. Important principles of using MS Word - document organization, styles, templates, embedded objects management, object references.
12.-13. Database applications (geodetic data import etc.).
Exercise
13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Computer lab use policy, FCE computer network, computer network security, university information system.
2. Rudiments of spreadsheets: cell addressing, entering names, copying, formatting, built-in Excel functions, formulas.
3. Conditional formatting, data validation, data import (measurement data import).
4. Graphic output.
5. Advanced computations in engineering science using spreadsheets.
6. Database applications (sorting, pivot tables, filtering).
7. Analytical tools: goal seek, solver.
8.–9. Basics of computer typography: text processing, document structure, styles, headings, references, footnotes, content.
10. Typesetting of technical documents. Formulas, tables, pictures.
11.–12. Basics of computer graphics: Image/photo processing using text processor and raster editor, image parameters for typesetting.
13. Final test, final work (document) evaluation.