Computer and Internet

No preliminary university level studies required. Recommended to do programming courses at the same time, unless already completed.

After the course you can

• describe the basic structure of a computer and tell what happens during the start up process
• explain all the locations where a computer can store data temporarily or permanently
• decribe what is a process and what is its purpose in the program execution
• clarify the connection between a network address and a hostname and transform a network address to its binary number representation and vice versa
• describe the structure of Internet and explain its main functionalities and principles
• write an assembly-language program that involving a simple data structure and are able to modify values of variables 
• explain and describe different data representations and transform the numerical representation of a number between different numeral systems
• describe how multiple processes execute in one processor and explain the mechanism for interrupt handling
• explain how message are sent, forwarded and received in the Internet
• describe the functionalities and the meaning of the key Internet services and protocols (DNS, HTTP, TCP, IP, DHCP, routing)
• justify the need for protecting data and explain the key principles of some mechanism discussed in the course

During the course you will also improve your general academic skills specifically in: reading professional and academic texts, academic writing, time management and constructive interaction with others.

You will also practise field-specific general skills like text-based use of computer via a terminal program and basic use of LaTeX.

Course material used is distributed to the students, but also material that the students search themselves may be included

Course books that contain the key materials are: Patterson&Hennessy: Computer Organization and Design RISC-V Edition and Kurose&Ross: Computer Networking or similar.