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Information Technology I helps students understand technical concepts underlying current and future developments in information technology.

FREE
This course includes
Hours of videos

472 years, 2 months

Units & Quizzes

17

Unlimited Lifetime access
Access on mobile app
Certificate of Completion

There will be a special emphasis on networks and distributed computing. Students will also gain some hands-on exposure to powerful, high-level tools for making computers do amazing things, without the need for conventional programming languages. Since 15.564 is an introductory course, no knowledge of how computers work or are programmed is assumed.

Course Currilcum

    • Computer Representations; Compression Unlimited
    • Operating Systems Unlimited
    • Relational Databases; Database Queries Using SQL Unlimited
    • An Introduction to Microsoft Access Unlimited
    • Relational Database Design Unlimited
    • Introduction to User Interface Building with Access Examples Unlimited
    • Telecommunication Concepts; Data Transmission Unlimited
    • Local Area Networks; Ethernet; Packet-switched Networks Unlimited
    • Wide Area Networks; The Internet Unlimited
    • Wireless Network Technologies Unlimited
    • Client/Server, Peer-to-Peer and the WWW Unlimited
    • Security I: Public Key Cryptography Unlimited
    • Security II: Digital Signatures; Network Security Unlimited
    • Evolution of Web Technologies Unlimited
    • Under the Hood of a Commercial Web Site Unlimited
    • Data Mining, Data Warehousing Unlimited
    • Software Agents Unlimited