Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: understand the basic components of a computer system; be familiar with terms being used in computer world today; be knowledgeable in the Windows Operating System; and demonstrate proficiency in the most common Microsoft Office applications. Version 2: Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to identify specifications and configurations of computer hardware, demonstrate the understanding and use of the components of a computer system, use terminology of current computer language correctly, use the Windows operating system easily and effectively, be proficient in the most common Microsoft 2019 applications, Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint, produce professional looking documents and presentations, create spreadsheets and charts using Microsoft Excel, utilize and customize a database using Microsoft Access and utilize the Internet and its capabilities to create personal webpages using HTML. 

Version 1 and 2: Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: write programs in C++ using basic and advanced features of the features of the language. Specifically: demonstrate the ability to perform  arithmetic and character operations on variables; demonstrate the ability to write a program that creates classes and objects; demonstrate the ability to use control structures in writing a program; demonstrate the ability to use a simple repetition statement in writing a program; be able to use different data types and perform conversions between the different types; demonstrate the ability to use nested loops in writing a program; demonstrate the ability to use a counter controlled loop in writing a program; be able to differentiate between the different logical operators and show their use in compound selector statements; demonstrate the ability to declare and use one-dimensional arrays; demonstrate the ability to declare and use two-dimensional arrays; demonstrate the ability to declare and use methods in a program; demonstrate the ability to declare and use classes and objects in a program; demonstrate the ability to declare and manipulate strings.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: use mathematical expressions to describe functions of simple combinational and sequential circuits; describe the physical limitations of electronic circuits; explain the pros and cons of using different formats to represent numerical data; convert numerical data from one format to another; discuss effects of fixed-length number representations on accuracy and precision; describe internal representation of characters, strings, records, and arrays; explain the basic organization and major functional units of the von Neumann machine; comprehend how an instruction is executed in a von Neumann machine; summarize how instructions are represented at machine levels and in context of a symbolic assembler; identify different instruction formats, such as addresses per instruction and variable length versus fixed length formats; write simple assembly language program segments; demonstrate how fundamental high-level programming constructs are implemented at the machine-language level; comprehend basic concepts of interrupts and I/O operations; explain how interrupts are used to implement I/O control and data transfers; identify various types of buses; describe data access from various drives, such as magnetic disks, optical disks, magnetic tape, and RAID drives; compare alternative implementations of datapaths; discuss control points and the generation of control signals using hardwired or microprogrammed implementations; explain basic instruction level parallelism using pipelining and describe hazards that may occur; implement parallel processing beyond the classical von Neumann model; describe alternative architectures such as SISD (Single Instruction, Single Data), SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data), MISD (Multiple Instruction, Single Data), and MIMD (Multiple Instruction, Multiple Data), and VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word.)

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: define and apply database concepts such as: database design, relational database design, database architecture, entity-relationships, data normalization, data modeling, ensuring data independence, query design, relationships, SQL, client/server, transaction processing, data types, indexing, ODBC, data access languages, security. The student will be able to design, build and implement a fully functional relational database using either Microsoft Access and/or SQL Server implementing the concepts covered.