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Foundations of IT
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:4.00
Study Course Accepted:21.03.2023 10:03:55
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | FK_069 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Physics | Target Audience: | Dentistry; Rehabilitation; Medicine | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Didzis Lauva | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Physics | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, 26a Anninmuizas boulevard, 1st floor, Rooms No 147 a and b, fizika rsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67061539 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 4 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 8 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 8 | Class Length (academic hours) | 3 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 24 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Computer science at secondary school level. | ||||||||
| Objective: | The course aims to provide students with the opportunity to acquire knowledge of modern informatics and its essence, to organize group works efficiently and remotely, advantages of various information systems (software and hardware), including the Internet, as well as to introduce graphical and classical programming. To develop an efficient organization of individual work and teamwork among students, to optimize students’ work with information and various modern information systems. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Google and its endless possibilities. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Working in clouds and building teamwork. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Workflow and team management tools, Agile philosophy, Jira, and Youtrack. | Classes | 1.00 | computer room | |||||
| 4 | LaTeX importance in technical texts. | Classes | 1.00 | computer room | |||||
| 5 | Databases. From MS Access to SQL. | Classes | 1.00 | computer room | |||||
| 6 | Graphical programming (AppInventor, Scratch). | Classes | 1.00 | computer room | |||||
| 7 | Repl.IT Insight in mathematical modeling and classical programming. | Classes | 1.00 | computer room | |||||
| 8 | Different operating systems and virtual machines. OSes, Linux. Command-line tool benefits. | Classes | 1.00 | computer room | |||||
| 9 | Internet of Things (IoT), HW coding (Raspberry Pi, Arduino, ESP8266). | Classes | 2.00 | computer room | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | A presentation must be prepared and given on one of the selected core topics of the course. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Active participation in practical classes, successful passing of two or three tests. (Teamwork / Software / (+) / Hardware). | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | By completing the study course, the student will be able to orientate himself in: Modern informatics elements and their essence, in effective organization of group work simultaneously and remotely, in various information systems (software and hardware), including the advantages of the Internet of Things, as well as familiar with graphic and classical programming. | ||||||||
| Skills: | After completing the study course students will be able: to select the optimal amount of information needed for the studies and the healthcare research; to design study papers using different types of fields – table of contents, references, signatures; to renew the fields in study work; to obtain the data via a questionnaire using appropriate forms and the Internet; to prepare the data for processing in MS Excel; to select data by various criteria; to perform calculations with numerical and categorical data. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | After completing the study course students will be able to select the information needed for their studies, design study papers, obtain and prepare data. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Hod Lipson, Melba Kurman. „Fabricated : The New World of 3D Printing”. John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, published 2013-02-11 (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 2 | Richard Bibb, Dominic Eggbeer, Abby Paterson. „Medical Modelling : The Application of Advanced Design and Rapid Prototyping Techniques in Medicine”. Elsevier Science & Technology, published 2015-01-12 | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Richard Horne, Kalani Kirk Hausman, ”3D Printing for Dummies”, John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, published 2017-05-22 | ||||||||
| 2 | Shlomo Magdassi, Alexander Kamyshny, „Nanomaterials for 2D and 3D Printing”, John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, published 2017-06-06 | ||||||||
| 3 | Mojtaba Salehi, Manoj Gupta, „Inkjet Based 3D Additive Manufacturing of Metals”, Materials Research Forum LLC, published 2018-01-02 | ||||||||
