Session | Session Focus | Reading Assignment | Other Assignment | Meeting Place/Exam Dates |
16 Jan 2018 | Introduction and rationale to the course | | | |
18 Jan 2018 | Computing models: standalone, client/server paradigm, networked | | Design a bird's a view for a distributed services for all your friends | |
23 Jan 2018 | Operating Systems and main differences among them: Windows, macOS, iOS, Linux, Android | | | |
25 Jan 2018 | Storing files: filesystems, folders, disks/partitions. Mounting removable drives and network volmes (Samba/CIFS, NFS, AFP). | | Create and use a network volme at home for immediate file-sharing (required at least 2 PCs/Macs or 1 mobile device and 1 PC/Mac). | |
30 Jan 2018 | File formats for storing texts (TXT, RTF, DOC, DOCX), hypertexts (HTML, PDF), sound (WAV, MID, OGG), database (SQL, ...), etc. | | | |
01 Feb 2018 | Principles of raster, vector and animated/3D computer graphics (CG).
File formats for storing images (PNG, JPEG, TIFF, EXR, DNG, ...), videos (AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, Mastrosa, MXF, ...) and CG (DXF) | | Pick up the right file format for generic data types | |
06 Feb 2018 | Basic typesetting tips, tricks and shortcuts | | | |
08 Feb 2018 | MS Word / G Docs: basic word-processing | | Typeset your own simple document | |
13 Feb 2018 | MS Word / G Docs: advanced typesetting and hypertexting | | Beautify your own, no-longer-simple document | |
15 Feb 2018 | MS Word: styles and templates | | Design your own thesis' template | |
20 Feb 2018 | MS Word: introduction to Desktop Publishing and finishing. Camera-, Press- and Web-ready documents. | | | |
22 Feb 2018 | Cloud computing and its paradigms: from Infrastructure- (IaaS), to Platform- (PaaS), to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) paradigms. | | Design the funcitonal toy-model of some public-domain / commercial web service based on Cloud. | |
27 Feb 2018 | | Midterm exam | | |
01 Mar 2018 | MS PowerPoint / G Slides: basic elements of a presentation
Elements of Typography and Design: choosing fonts and a color palette | | Drawing your first pitch | |
06 Mar 2018 | MS PowerPoint: rules for pitching an audience and their translation to effective slides | | | |
08 Mar 2018 | MS PowerPoint: advanced design. | | Empowering an effective pitch | |
13 Mar 2018 | MS Excel / G Sheets: organizing data and ordinary analytics | | Record some tabular data about your daily activities during the next 1-2 weeks | |
15 Mar 2018 | MS Excel / G Sheets: start to do simple calculations | | Correlate your weekly data in a spreadsheet | |
20 Mar 2018 | G Forms et al.: interactive documents | | Create and deploy an RSVP announcement | |
22 Mar 2018 | Sharing documents with other in the Cloud.
Authentication, access lists and file Permissions.
Storing your documents in the Cloud: Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, etc. | | Store and share documents on Cloud storage for use with office-automation apps in the Cloud. | |
27 Mar 2018 | Principles of Information Security. The Triad of Security.
Types of security controls. | | | |
29 Mar 2018 | Authentication, federated identification and authentication: our alter-ego identities in the digital realm. | | Review filesystem access permissions in your own computer/laptop, network storage and/or cloud storage space. | |
10 Apr 2018 | MS Outlook / Gmail; MS Skype / G Hangout; …): communication, planning and conferencing in a company setting. | | Send emails to and chat with your fellows like working for a company. | |
12 Apr 2018 | Securing your content: elements of Cryptography.
| | Generate password-protected douments and play with public/private keys. | |
17 Apr 2018 | Thought use of multimedia in your everyday productivity. | | | |
19 Apr 2018 | Introduction on Data Management | | | |
24 Apr 2018 | Last lesson: the new EU Global Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and its consequences on privacy, social-networking and e-Business | | | |
04 May 2018 | Final exam | | | Friday, May 4, 3:00pm–5:30pm |