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	Category	Status	
1	2+0+1	complementary	compulsory	

II. Full status faculty members
Name and	Scientific	Didactic	Chair	Type of activity	
surname	title	title		C	S	L	
DARABANT Sergiu	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
Assimilation of the main IT concepts.
Assimilation of the some office editing and content creation software instruments.
Assimilation of the general concepts used in Internet and Internet services.
Assimilation of the Internet communication and data security and protection technologies. Respect of the legal, moral and ethical aspects of the Internet and Intranet technologies.
Building web pages and integrating them in web sites.	

IV. Course contents
COURSE:
 - General Information Technology concepts
 - File systems
 - IT Security Concepts
 - Text Processing
 - Spreadsheets 
 - Databases
 - Presentations
 - Communications and applications within the Internet
 - Communications in Internet (Non Web)
 - The Word Wide Web and the HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

LABORATORY:
 - Using the Mircrosoft Windows operating system
 - Using the UNIX operating system
 - File transport
 - Text processors
 - Spreadsheets
 - Presentations
 - Databases
 - Internet browsing and HTML pages creation

V. Bibliography
1. ***, http://computer.howstuffworks.com/
2. Boian F.M. De la aritmetică la calculatoare. Ed. Presa Universitară Clujeană, 1996
3. Cristea V. ş.a. UNIX, Ed. Teora, Bucureşti, 1993
4. ***, HTML Tutorials - http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/ 
5. ***, Introduction to HTML - http://www.cwru.edu/help/introHTML/toc.html
6. Radoiu D. HTML; publicaţii Web. Computer Press AGORA 1996
7. Wyatt, A. L. Navigând prin Internet. Ed. ALL, Bucureşti, 1995

VI. Thematic of didactic activities per weeks
COURSE:
1. General Information Technology  concepts
	Hardware, Software, IT
	Types of Computers
	The architecture of a personal computer 
	Computer Networks and Internet
2. File systems
	Using file systems
	Types of file systems
3. IT Security Concepts
	Information Protection
	Electronic Commerce and data confidentiality
	Copyright and software intellectual property 
	Computer Viruses
4. Text Processing - Using and editing with Microsoft Word
5. Spreadsheets  - Working with Microsoft Excel
6. Presentations - Working with Microsoft PowerPoint
7. Databases - Working with Microsoft Access
8. Communications and applications with the Internet
	Internet structure and coordinating agencies
	Internet addressing, Name Servers
	URL (Uniform Resource Locators)
9. Communications in INTERNET  (Non Web).
	E-mail  
	The File Transfer Protocol (FTP). The concept of anonymous FTP;
10. The Word Wide Web and the HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
	The general Web structure and services
	The role of the HTML in the Word Wide Web; Creating Web pages
	The syntax and semantics of HTML

11.
        The structure of a HTML document. Creating and managing HTML links and references
	Software packages for creating and editing HTML documents

12.-14. Practical applcations, questions.

LABORATORY:
1. Using the Mircrosoft Windows operating system
2. Using the UNIX operating system- The main commands for communications and file handling; Using text emailing tools: pine
3. File Transport: FTP, anonymous FTP
4. Text processors - Microsoft Word
5. Spreadsheets - Microsoft Excel
6. Databases - Microsoft Access
   Spreadsheets - Microsoft Excel
7. Internet browsing: the Lynx and Internet Explorer browsers; Simple HTML pages.
Creating personal Web pages. Integrating personal Web pages in general purpose Web sites	

VII. Didactic methods used
-Presentation, conversation, discovery, exercise 	

VIII. Assessment
Practical exam at the end of the semester, theoretical concepts are also subject to verification. The mark is a weighted mean between:
- the exam mark;
- the semester laboratory activity – homework must be solved correctly and in time.
Laboratories are compulsory. In order to successfully pass the exam, lab grade, exam grade and final grade must be >=5.

Course page: http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/~dadi/IC	

IX. Additional references

	Dean,							Chair head,

	Date,							Course responsible,
								Lect. DARABANT Sergiu, Ph.D.