Grundlagen der Informatik, Med Inf - Module BTX8060

Goals of this course

The students have acquired basic knowledge in Computer Science. They know how numbers are encoded. They know how characters are encoded and also how to encode binary data. They know the principles of compression. They know the basics of cryptography.
This course is intended for first year students in medical informatics of the BFH-TI.
Moodle page for the module

Schedule

Day Contents
Sept. 15 and 19, 2025History
Sept. 22 and 26, 2025Architecture
Sept. 29 and Oct. 3, 2025Hexadecimal notation
Oct. 6 and 10, 2025Negative integers, 2's complement notation
Oct. 13 and 17, 2025Base64
Oct. 20 and 24, 2025 IEEE754 Float notation
Oct. 27 and 31, 2025Operating Systems, Pre-test
Nov. 3 and 7, 2025Test, The Unix World (I)
Nov. 10 and 14, 2025 No course: Special Week
Nov. 17 and 21, 2025The Unix World (II)
Nov 24 and 28, 2025Encoding of text files (accents, special chars) I
Dec. 1 and 5, 2025Encoding of text files (accents, special chars) II
Dec. 8 and 12, 2025Lossless compression
Dec. 15 and 19, 2025Lossy compression of images and videos
Dec. 22 and 26, 2025 No course: Christmass hollydays
Dec 29, 2025 and Jan. 2, 2026 No course: Christmass hollydays
Jan. 05 and 9, 2026 Symetric cryptography
Jan. 12 and 16, 2026 Asymetric cryptography and PKI

Evaluation

This module is a "Pb" module. The mark has two components:
  • One test (60 minute each), (25%)
  • Very small questionnaires at the begining of each course, (10%)
  • A written Exam (65%)
This module gives 2 ECTS credits.
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