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2.  Dr Lahcen Ouarbya  Office: Room 6, 29 St-James  Email: l.ouarbya@gold.ac.uk  Tel: 0207 7172263  Office Hours: Thursday 3-4pm

3.  Introduction to the use of computers  Files and folders/directories  Introduction to binary system  Memory  CPU  Logic Gate  Operating Systems  The Internet HTML and XHTML  Introduction to computer networks  Network protocols.  Computer laws

4.  Lectures:  RHB 309  Time 9 –11am  Labs /workshops  Whitehead Building 316  Time 11.00-12.00 & 12.00-13.00  There are two groups A and B, alternate

5.  Books  White, R. (2002). How Computers Work. 6 th Edition. (Indianapolis, Indiana:: QUE, 2002) edition [ISBN 0789725495]  Computer Science: An Overview by J. Glenn Brookshear  New Inside the PC by Peter Norton  William Stallings, (2003). Computer Organization and Architecture: Designing for Performance. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice-Hall. http://williamstallings.com/COA5e.html  Novels Neuromancer by William Gibson  Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson