- Offerta formativa A.A. 2018/2019
- Master's Degree in EUROPEAN HERITAGE, DIGITAL MEDIA AND THE INFORMATION SOCIETY
- COMPUTER SCIENCE FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE
COMPUTER SCIENCE FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE
- Teaching in italian
- COMPUTER SCIENCE FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE
- Teaching
- COMPUTER SCIENCE FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE
- Subject area
- ING-INF/05
- Reference degree course
- EUROPEAN HERITAGE, DIGITAL MEDIA AND THE INFORMATION SOCIETY
- Course type
- Master's Degree
- Credits
- 6.0
- Teaching hours
- Frontal Hours: 42.0
- Academic year
- 2018/2019
- Year taught
- 2018/2019
- Course year
- 1
- Language
- ENGLISH
- Curriculum
- INTERNAZIONALE
- Reference professor for teaching
- TOMMASI Francesco
Teaching description
A.Y. 2018/2019 – Teacher: prof. Francesco Tommasi
Semester: first
Credits: 6
1) Course presentation and aim
The course aims at providing the students coming from the humanities with the basics of Computer Science. The course is based on the UNIX operating system, because of its popularity among professionals.
The following topics will be taught:
- What is an operating system
- The UNIX operating system
- The shell and the Command Line Interface
- Useful UNIX commands and utilities
- Scripting languages and their use
- Text encoding – Unicode, UTF8 and related tools
- File formats: description and manipulation (text, image, audio, video)
- Network basics and main network tools
- Computer security – digital objects integrity and authenticity
Reference material:
All needed reference material is composed, organized and constantly updated by the teacher. It will be posted in the course moodle site.
As a secondary reference, the following texts may be consulted:
- Peek, Todino, Strang, Learning the Unix Operating System, 5th ed. O'Reilly 2001, ISBN 978-0596002619:
- Newham, Learning the bash Shell, 3rd ed., O'Reilly 2005 ISBN 978-0596009656
- Cooper, Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide, http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
- Silberschatz, Galvin, Gagne - Operating System Concepts - Wiley - 9th ed. (2013) - ISBN 978-1118063330
2) Acquired skills
The student will be able to exploit the power of the command line interface to deal with basic computer problems. Such skills will prove useful in other courses (ex. database, web technologies) when he will be requested to install, run and manage relevant software for those fields.
3) Prerequisites
Familiarity with computers (at least at ECDL level)
4) Didactic method
While lectures are delivered, the students sit in front of a computer and are requested to reproduce every step as shown by the teacher.
5) Students evaluation
Students will be presented with a practical task and asked to solve it by the computer within a given time.
6) Meet the teacher
the teacher is always available. Just write to francesco.tommasi@unisalento.it for an appointment.
Semester
First Semester (dal 24/09/2018 al 25/01/2019)
Exam type
Compulsory
Type of assessment
Oral - Final grade
Course timetable
https://easyroom.unisalento.it/Orario