1. Department of Computer Science @ UGA
Fall 2008
CSCI 1100: Introduction to Personal Computing
Instructor: Full Name
Office Address
Contact Information (email, office number)
Class Times: Tue & Thur: 11:00a – 12:15p
Wed: 11:15p – 12:05p
Class Location: (Location where class suppose to be held)
Office Hours: Wed: 12:05p to 1:30p
By prior email appointment
Class Web Site: WebCT (you need your UGA MyId to access)
Prerequisite No prerequisite
Course Objectives: 1. This course will help you to understand the basic
working of any computer.
2. The course will help to give you a background to
intelligently buy a computer, install software, and
create and manage your documents.
3. Emphasize basic software and Internet use, and
provide you with proficiency in the use of the
Microsoft Office software suite. You will learn
how to put up and maintain your personal Web
page at UGA.
Area of Course This class satisfies the Area D requirement for a 3-
hour science or technology course.
Course Textbook Technology in action (Complete) second edition, by
Evans, Martin, and Poatsky. Prentice-Hall,
ISBN 0-13-148904-6
Software Needed OneKey access code for Prentice-Hall Train and
Assess IT software. This should come bundled with
the text. You will need it to access the lab exercises
and online tests. Sharing this code with other
students is a bad idea, because only one set of lab test
grades will be stored online for each key.
Method of Instruction All announcements will be given through WebCT.
Course Content:

2. Week Topic Chapter Homework Due
Week 1 Understanding the Parts; taking 1,2
care of your computer
Week 2 Application software 3,4
Week 3 Digital Media, Copyrights and 5
other intellectual property issues
Week 4 Computer security threats: 5
viruses and virus protection
Week 5 Computer Security threats: 5
Trojan horses, spyware, and
phishing
Week 6 Behind the Scenes: how the 6
CPU works
Week 7 Web Authoring: HTTP and 7
HTML
Week 8 Web Authoring: HTTP and 7
HTML
Week 9 Web Authoring: JavaScript 7
Week 10 Web Authoring: JavaScript 7
Week 11 Information systems analysis and 8
design
Week 12 Information systems analysis and 8
design
Week 13 Structured Query Language 10
(SQL)
Week 14 Behind the Scenes: how 12
networks work
Week 15 Final Exam
Course Structure: Teaching
Assignments
Quizzes
Midterm Exam
Final Exams
Course Schedule: This is a tentative schedule and is subject to change:
08/16/08 to 09/28/08 Teaching
10/02/08 Midterm Exam
10/08/08 to 10/23/08 Teaching
10/26/08 Midterm Exam
11/1/08 to 12/1/08 Teaching
12/07/08 Final Exam
Grade Allocations: Final letter grades will depend on class standing

3. Assignments 10%
Midterms 40%
Online homework 10%
Web-page 10%
Final Exam 25%
In-class participation and 5%
attendance:
Withdrawals and Incompletes
[Instructor’s policy about giving W or WF and also if someone is unable to take the
final exam what will be his/her final results be.]
Make-up Exams
[Policy about the Make-up exams,under what conditions does student will be given
the opportunity to take up the exam.]
Students with Disabilities
Students with disabilities needing academic accommodations should let me know.
We will likely have openings for students to take notes for disabled students: these will be
announced in class.
Academic Honesty
The University’s Academic Honesty Policy is in effect. The only academic honesty issues
that might arise in this class are cheating during exams or the in-class lab exams. I don’t
mind your doing the lab exercises and/or onlne homework in groups, as long as the entire
i
group understands all the answers.
Suspected academic honesty violations will be taken to the academic honesty resolution
procedure at the Vice President for Academic Affairs’ office. Penalties can be severe – see
http://www.uga.edu/ovpi/academic_honesty/academic_honesty.htm.