Introduction

• The course code/title is Informatics - Laboratory (NINFLO1).
• The course requirements include taking quizzes, assignments, laboratory activities, and major examinations.
• Each module in the course requires completion of self-check (quiz), seatwork, assignment, major written examinations, and hands-on examinations.
• The contact information for the course is [e-mail], [e-mail], and www.facebook.com/lorie.narag.
• Consultation hours for the course are during class time.
• The course includes lessons on Introduction, Course Syllabus, Introduction to Computer, Word Processing, Spread sheet, and HIS using Hospital Run system.
• Youth today can be called the computing generation.
• Most students today have access to computers at school.
• Computers are widely used in healthcare, from diagnostic systems to patient monitoring systems.
• Computers play an important role in government services, from budgets to sales tax department to computation of male/female ratio to computerization of voters lists.
• Colleges and universities are even more integrated, with wireless hotspots allowing usage of personal laptops to connect to the college network.
• In marketing, computers are used in advertising and home shopping.
• Some schools integrate e-books into the curriculum.
• Computers are also used in engineering design, distance learning, and military applications.
• Some colleges require a computer for enrollment.
• The objectives of the Introduction to Computer lesson include identifying the different components of a computer, understanding the program development life cycle and applying it in problem solving, and understanding programming languages and their categories.
• A computer is a machine that performs a variety of tasks according to specific instructions.
• A computer is a data processing machine which accepts data via an input device and its processor manipulates the data according to a program.
• The use of computers for data processing in an organization leads to reduction in paperwork and speeds up the process.
• Computers cannot make judgment based on feeling, taste, experience and knowledge unlike a human being.
• Though the initial investment for installing a computer is high but it substantially reduces the cost of each of its transaction.
• A computer is a machine and has no intelligence of its own to perform any task.
• A computer cannot take any decision on its own.
• A computer is an automatic machine.
• It can perform functions as instructed by user.
• Computers are fully dependent on human being.
• A computer is very flexible in performing the jobs to be done.
• The operating environment/place where the computer will be placed should be dust-free and suitable to its electronic components.
• Computers have no feeling or emotions.
• Each and every instruction has to be given to computer.
• As data in electronic files can be retrieved as and when required, the problem of maintenance of large number of files gets reduced.
• A computer is a device that takes input such as numbers, text, sound, image, animations, video, etc., and converts it, returning the changed input (processed input) as output.
• Computers are used for a variety of tasks including looking up information and news, exchanging e-mail, shopping and paying bills, watching TV and videos, downloading music and movies, organizing digital photographs, playing games, making vacation plans, and wireless networking.
• Computers can be used in nearly any location including smart appliances and smart homes.
• The history of computers includes the widespread use of various technological devices which vary from time to time.
• Employees in all lines of work need to continually refresh their computer skills.
• Computers are encountered in nearly every aspect of daily life including consumer kiosks, ATM transactions, POS systems at retail stores, self-checkout systems, consumer authentication systems, portable computers or mobile devices, GPS systems, and restaurant iPad ordering.
• Computers have become a universal on-the-job tool for decision-making, productivity, and communication used by all types of employees for decision-making, productivity and communications, access control and other security measures, and used extensively by the military.
• When computers and communications combine, convergence, portability, personalization, collaboration, cloud computing, Artificial Intelligence and IoT/IoE will be observed where information technology systems are moving away from the standard personal hardware to more extensive networks and smaller and smarter devices.
• Hardware refers to any part of your computer that has a physical structure, such as the processor, input and output devices, and storage devices, as well as peripheral devices.