Prof. Dr. P.

Weber

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Fachhochschule Sdwestfalen
Wir geben Impulse

Instructors

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Schedule

General schedule:
Lecture (Prof. Dr. Peter Weber):

Thursday,

01.45 03.15pm,

11.007

Seminar 1 (Asif Shahriar):

Tuesday,

03.00 04.30pm,

04.314

Seminar 2 (Asif Shahriar):

Wednesday, 01.45 03.15pm,

04.314

Seminar 3 (Asif Shahriar):

Thursday,

10.15 11.45am,

04.314

Lecture (Prof. Dr. Peter Weber):

Thursday,

01.45 3.15pm,

11.007

Seminar 1 (Asif Shahriar):

No class

Seminar 2 (Asif Shahriar):

No class

Seminar 3 (Asif Shahriar):

No class,

First week schedule:

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Bachelor of Business Administration with Informatics

Introduction to IT Introduction

Moodle: https://e-learning.fh-swf.de
Course name: EET BBA WiSe 16/17:
IT Introduction WS16/17
Password:
IT-Intro-WS16/17
Text Books
Weber / Lux / Gabriel:
Business Informatics Fundamentals
(chapter wise through Moodle)
Williams / Sawyer:
Using Information Technology,
11th Edition
(available in the library)

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Course Outline Part I

03.-07.10.

Introduction

10.-14.10.

IT Developments / Hardware

17.-21.10

IT Developments / Hardware

24.-28.10.

Networks / The Internet

31.-04.11.

No class (Kirmes)

07.-11.11.

Networks / The Internet

14.-18.11.

Movie Pirates of Silicon Valley

21.-25.11.

Software

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Course Outline Part II

28.-02.12.

Software

05.-09.12

Databases

12.-16.12.

Heinz Nixdorf Museum Visit (Paderborn)

19.-23.12.

No class

26.-30.12.

No class

02.-06.01.

IT Security / Data Protection

09.-13.01.

Information Management

16.-20.01.

IT Study Night

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Grading

Exam

Written Exam of 90 minutes based on the content of the lecture (100%)

Extra Credit Program (ECP): 5% extra credit for
successful online quizzes (all quizzes, one attempt per quiz) during
the exercise classes (pass score: 50%),

full participation (max. 2 misses) in the exercise classes

participation in the study night at the end of the semester
participation in the excursion to the Heinz Nixdorf Museum

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Computers, Tablets & Phones in the classroom

You are welcome to use your devices for:

Following the lecture

Working along with the instructor
Performing class related Internet searches
Completing assignments (e.g. on Socrative)
But, please, dont use them for:
Text messaging or emailing friends
Surfing the Internet for entertainment

Doing assignments for other classes

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Socrative

https://b.socrative.com/login/student/ or http://www.socrative.com/apps.php

Socrative Room WEBER001IT

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Information Technology

Information Technology names any technology that helps to

produce, manipulate, store, communicate, and/or disseminate
information.
Two main parts:
Computer Technology
Communications Technology

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Business Informatics

Business Informatics is the design (planning, analysis, design,

development/procurement, and implementation) and use of (operation,
maintenance, and care) of Information and Communication Systems in
companies and public administrations.
Informatics

Managerial Economics

Business Informatics

Mathematics

Engineering
Law

Design and application of computer-aided

information and communication systems

People

Tasks

etc.

Information
Technology

Organization
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Objectives

Automation of information processing tasks

Support of specialists and executives (e.g. decision support)

Improvement of
Labor organization (ergonomics)
Efficiency
Performance
E-Health
Quality

Health
Websites
Telemedicine
Health
records
etc.

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E-Learning

Learning
Platforms
Online
Courses
Labs
etc.

E-Government

E-Business

Self-Service
Transparency
Document
Management
etc.

Information
Systems
E-Commerce
Decision
Support
etc.

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Career Dev. / Jobs

Portals
Consultants
Developers
Analysts
etc.

Increasing Speed in the IT Development

40001200
BCE

Clay tablets

1994

Wireless data
transmission

1998

PayPal

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900
BCE

First Postal
Service

100
CE

First bound
books

1982

1984

First Laser
Printer

Portable
Computers

1666

First
mechanical
calculator

1981

Personal
Computer

1941

First Digital
Computer

1969

Internet

20032007

200720nn

2017

20302045

Facebook,
Twitter, Skype,
YouTube

Mobile Era
(smartphones,
tablets, etc.)

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Some Basics

Purpose of a computer

Turn data into information

Data: raw facts and figures
Information: data that has been summarized and manipulated for use in
decision making
Hardware vs. Software
Hardware = the machinery and equipment in the computer

Software (programs) = the electronic instructions that tell the computer

how to perform a task

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Basic Operations

Input
Processing (Central Processing Unit)
Storage
Primary storage (Main Memory)
Secondary storage (HDD, DVDs, etc.)
Output
+ Communication

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Bits and Bytes

Everything with computers can be ultimately traced down to 0 and 1!

Example: 2 Terabyte Hard Drive (HDD)

What is a Terabyte? What is a Gigabyte, Megabyte, Byte, and Bit?
Bit = Binary Digit = 0 or 1 8 bits = 1 byte
1 byte = 1 character of data
1 kilobyte = 1,024 characters
1 megabyte = 1,048,576 characters
1 gigabyte = over 1 billion characters

1 terabyte = over 1 trillion characters

1 petabyte = about 1 quadrillion characters
But how is data actually stored on the HDD?
magnetic storage (alignment of particles)
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Binary System

128

64

32

16

1
2

3
13
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Calculator example

Representations of numbers through transistors

Entries stored in registers

Example: 5 Register with 8 transistors each:

2

0000 0010

0000 0101

0000 0111

How can computers handle the + and the =?

How can computer can process letters?

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Registers are used for

short-term storage of
information during
processing must be
immediately tangible
(a few bytes of memory
space; address via fixed
identifiers).

ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange

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ASCII

= 65 = 0100 0001

= 66 = 0100 0010

= 97 = 0110 0001

= 98 = 0110 0010

Unicode is an internationally
standardized set of characters that will
be developed with the aim to provide a
uniform coding for each text document
of all languages and cultures of the
world.

An 8-bit ASCII code (1 byte) can represent as many different

characters?
256

Unicode as an alternative Encoding including several bytes

An ASCII exercise with 8 volunteers!

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