College of Information Technology

Universiti Tenaga Nasional

CMPF 125/124: Basic Skills for Knowledge Workers

Course Information:
Lecturer : Mohana Shanmugam
Room Number : BW-4-C48
Telephone : 03-8921 2020 ext 2385
E-mail : mohana@uniten.edu.my
Website : http://metalab.uniten.edu.my/~mohana

Lecture Hours : Sect 1A: Tues (10–11am) & Fri (8–10am) -> BW-G-R04
Lab Hours : Sect 1A: Tues (2–4pm) -> BW-3-L13

Reference Books:
1. Grauer, R. T. & Barber, M., Microsoft Office 2003 Vol 1, Prentice Hall, 2006.
2. Welsh, M., Kaufman, L., Dalheimer, M.K., & Dawson, T., Running Linux, O’Reilly & Associates,
2002.
3. Niederst, J., Koman, R., Learning Web Design: A Beginner’s Guide to HTML, Graphics and
Beyond, O’Reilly & Associates, 2001.

Weekly Schedule (tentative):

Week Starting
Topics Lab
No. Date
Introduction to Windows Operating Systems No lab
1 6 July 2010
 Introduction and history of Windows OS
 Manipulating Windows GUI (Graphical User
Interface) Manipulating
2 13 July 2010  Overview of Windows software Windows GUI
 Basic Windows administration

3 20 July 2010 Microsoft Office Suite

 Microsoft Word Microsoft Office
4 27 July 2010  Microsoft Excel
Lab 1: Manipulating
 Microsoft PowerPoint
Windows GUI Part 1
Lab 2: Microsoft
5 3 August 2010 Word
Lab 3: Microsoft
Excel
 Microsoft Internet Explorer Microsoft Office

10 August Image and Image Editing Lab 4: Microsoft

6 Powerpoint
2010  Introduction to image and image editing
software
 Concepts, & definitions
17 August Open Source Software Image and image
7
2010 editing

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Week Starting
Topics Lab
No. Date
 Introduction to FSF (Free Software Lab Test/Assignment
Foundation) and GNU (15%)
24 August  Open source software vs. software piracy
8  Overview of GNU software
2010
 Comparisons between open source and
commercial software
9 30 Aug 2010 *MID TERM EXAMINATION
Introduction to Linux Operating Systems Understanding Linux
10 7 Sept 2010  Introduction and history of Linux Common Unix/Linux
 Linux systems and distributions command
 Manipulating Linux GUI
Lab 5: Linux
 Linux command-line interface
11 14 Sept 2010  Overview of Linux software and tools
 Basic Linux administration
HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) Create your first
12 21 Sept 2010 web page
 Introduction to HTML
 Understanding HTML scripts Inserting objects
 Inserting objects into HTML into HTML
13 28 Sept 2010
 HTML developments tools
Lab 6: HTML
14 5 Oct 2010 REVISION WEEK
11 Oct –
15 FINAL EXAM
16 Oct 2010

Course Descriptions:
This course aims at teaching the students to use two of the most prevalent operating systems
nowadays, which are Windows and Linux operating systems. Together with the OS, this course
also teaches the students to use common software that comes with the OS. For Windows, the
course covers the Microsoft office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Internet Explorer). For
Linux, this course covers a number of basic Unix tools and also GNU software. This course also
tries to introduce the concept of open source software and promote the use of open source
software as opposed to software piracy. Finally, this course teaches the students to build simple
web pages, using both the HTML scripting and web page development tools.

Objectives of the Course:

The course aims to:
1. Teach students on writing HTML pages.
2. Teach students on the use of two of the most prevalent operating systems.
3. Provide understanding on performing basic administration under Windows and Linux.
4. Teach students the use of common software that comes with the Operating Systems.
5. Introduce and provide understanding on image and editing tool(s).
Outcomes of the Course:
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At the end of this course, the student should be able to:

1. Use Windows and Linux operating systems.

2. Perform basic administration under Windows and Linux.
3. Use the software provided with Microsoft Office Suite (basic to intermediate level
skills).
4. Use image and editing tool(s).
5. Write their HTML pages.

Assessment:
 Lab assignment/test: 15%
 Quizzes and assignments: 15%
 Mid Term Exam 20%
 Conducted in Week 9
 Final Exam 50%
Total 100%

Class Policies:
1. Late submissions of assignments will not be accepted without valid reason.
2. Missing lectures due to
 sickness : MC is required
 emergency : letter of guardian is required
3. The lecturer reserves the right to give pop-quizzes whenever deemed appropriate.
Latecomers will not get extended time.
4. Cheating and any attempt thereto will not be tolerated and penalized according to the
seriousness of the offense.

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