Unit LABORATORY INFORMATICS
- Course
- Biological sciences
- Study-unit Code
- GP004022
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Simonetta Pallottelli
- Teachers
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- Simonetta Pallottelli
- Hours
- 21 ore - Simonetta Pallottelli
- CFU
- 3
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2017
- Offered
- 2017/18
- Learning activities
- Altro
- Area
- Abilità informatiche e telematiche
- Academic discipline
- INF/01
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- italian
- Contents
- General structure, origins and evolution of a computer. Hardware and Software. Concepts: algorithm, program, processing. Information: type, encoding and representation. Scientific computing. Notes on computer security. Personal Computer. Software applications for statistics and mathematics. Networks. Internet. WWW. Web Information: research and evaluation tools.
- Reference texts
- Introduzione ai sistemi informatici (5/ed) , Donatella Sciuto, Giacomo Buonanno e Luca Mari, McGraw-Hill
• Informatica Medica, A. Rosotti, McGraw-Hill
• Principles of Computer Science, Paul Tymann, Carl Reynolds, McGraw-Hill
• Materiale vario per approfondimenti, esercizi e slides delle lezioni sono distribuiti on-line sul sito di e-learning http://www.unistudium.unipg.it - Educational objectives
- The course provides the basic concepts and tools of computer science, the acquisition of skills of individual software applications, to support the study and research in the sciences.
The student should use the computer in a more conscious and efficient. - Prerequisites
- none
- Teaching methods
- Theoretical lessons in the classroom and practical lessons in the laboratory.
- Other information
- Use of e-learning platform http://www.unistudium.unipg.it
- Learning verification modality
- Multiple choice written exam.
- Extended program
- General structure, origins and evolution of a computer.
Hardware and Software.
Concepts: algorithm, program, processing.
Information: type, encoding and representation.
Scientific computing.
Notes on computer security.
Personal Computer.
Software applications for statistics and mathematics.
Networks. Internet. WWW.
Web Information: research and evaluation tools.