Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai Cluj-Napoca
Facultatea de Matematică şi Informatică
Ciclul de studii: Licenţă
Domeniul: Informatică
Programul de studii: Informatică - în limba engleză
Limba de predare: Engleză

SYLLABUS

I. General data
Code	Subject	
MIH0001	Human-Computer Interface and Communication in Internet	

Semester	Hours: C+S+L+P	Category	Status	
1	2+0+1+0	complementary	compulsory	

II. Full status faculty members
Name and	Scientific	Didactic	Chair	Type of activity	
surname	title	title		C	S	L	
COBARZAN Claudiu	Ph.D.	Lect.	Computer Systems	*			

Associated faculty members
Name and	Scientific	Institution	Type of	Type of activity	
surname	title		position	C	S	L	

III. Course objectives
Introduction to the main IT concepts.
Introduction to the use of office editing and content creation software instruments.
Introduction to the general concepts used in Internet and Intranet services.
Introduction to the Internet communication and data security and protection technologies. Discussion on the importance of respecting the legal, moral and ethical aspects of the Internet and Intranet technologies.
Introduction to HTML and development of simple web pages. Integration in web sites.
Introduction to the LaTeX document preparation system.	

IV. Course contents
1. General Information Technology  concepts
	1.1 Hardware, Software, IT
	1.2 Types of Computers
	1.3 The architecture of a personal computer 
	1.4 Computer Networks and Internet
2. File systems
	2.1 Using file systems
	2.2 Types of file systems
3. IT Security Concepts
	3.1 Information Protection
	3.2 Electronic Commerce and data confidentiality
	3.3 Copyright and software intellectual property 
	3.4 Computer Viruses
4. Text Processing - Using and editing with Microsoft Word and the OpenOffice equivalent
5. Spreadsheets  - Working with Microsoft Excel and the OpenOffice equivalent
6. Presentations - Working with Microsoft PowerPoint and the OpenOffice equivalent
7. Databases - Working with Microsoft Access
8. Internet Communications and applications 
	8.1 Internet structure and coordinating agencies
	8.2 Internet addressing, Name Servers
	8.3 URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
9. Communications in INTERNET  (Non Web)
	9.1 E-mail  
	9.2 The File Transfer Protocol (FTP). The concept of anonymous FTP
10. The Word Wide Web and the HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
	10.1 The general Web structure and services
	10.2 The role of the HTML in the Word Wide Web; Creating Web pages
	10.3 The syntax and semantics of HTML
11. Web development using HTML
      11.1 The structure of a HTML document 
      11.2 Creating and managing HTML links, references and tables
12. The LaTeX document preparation system
      12.1 Typesetting journal articles, technical reports, books, and slide presentations
      12.2 Using sectioning, cross-references, tables and figures 
      12.3 Typesetting of complex mathematical formulas	

V. Bibliography
1. Florian Mircea Boian, De la aritmetică la calculatoare. Ed. Presa Universitară Clujeană, 1996
2. Florian Mircea Boian, Alexandru Vancea, Rares Boian, Darius Bufnea, Adrian Sterca, Claudiu Cobarzan, Dan Cojocar, Sisteme de operare, Risoprint, 2006
3. Leslie Lamport, LaTeX: A Document Preparation System, 2nd Edition, Addison-Wesley, 1994
4. Alexandru Vancea, Florian Boian, Darius Bufnea, Anca Gog, Adrian Darabant, Andreea Sabau, Arhitectura calculatoarelor. Limbajul de asamblare 80x86, Risoprint, 2005
5. ***, W3Schools Online Web Tutorials (www.w3schools.com)	

VI. Thematic of didactic activities per weeks

VII. Didactic methods used

VIII. Assessment
Practical exam at the end of the semester, theoretical concepts are also subject to verification. To pass the exam, the final exam grade must be at least 5.	

IX. Additional references

	Dean,							Chair head,

	Date,							Course responsible,
								Lect. COBARZAN Claudiu, Ph.D.