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.
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Schedule

Day Contents
Sept. 17 and 20, 2024History
Sept. 24 and 27, 2024Architecture
Oct. 1 and 4, 2024Hexadecimal notation
Oct. 8 and 11, 2024Negative integers, 2's complement notation
Oct. 15 and 18, 2024Base64
Oct. 22 and 25, 2024 IEEE754 Float notation
Oct. 29 and Nov. 1, 2024Operating Systems, Pre-tests1
Nov. 5 and 8, 2024Test 1, The Unix World (I)
Nov. 12 and 15, 2024 No course: Blockwoche
Nov. 19 and 22, 2024The Unix World (II)
Nov 27 and 29, 2024Encoding of text files (accents, special chars) I
Dec. 3 and 6, 2024Encoding of text files (accents, special chars) II
Dec. 10 and 13, 2024Lossless compression
Dec. 17 and 20, 2024Lossy compression of images and videos
Dec. 24 and 27, 2024 No course: Weihnachtenferien
Dec 31 2024 and Jan. 3, 2025 No course: Weihnachtenferien
Jan. 07 and 10, 2025 Test 2 + Symetric cryptography
Jan. 14 and 17, 2025 Asymetric cryptography and PKI

Evaluation

This module is a "Pb" module. The mark has two components:
  • Two small tests (30 minutes each), (35%)
  • A written Exam (65%)
This module gives 2 ECTS credits.