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. 19 and 22, 2023History
Sept. 28 and 29, 2023Architecture
Oct. 3 and 6, 2023Hexadecimal notation
Oct. 10 and 13, 2023Negative integers, 2's complement notation
Oct. 17 and 20, 2023IEEE754 Float notation
Oct. 24 and 27, 2023 Operating Systems
Oct. 31 and Nov. 3, 2023The Unix World (I)
Nov. 7 and 10, 2023Presentation of tests + Test 1
Nov. 14 and 17, 2023 No course: Blockwoche
Nov. 21 and 24, 2023The Unix World (II)
Nov 28 and Dec. 1, 2023Encoding of text files (accents, special chars) I
Dec. 5 and 8, 2023Encoding of text files (accents, special chars) II
Dec. 12 and 15, 2023Lossless compression
Dec. 19 and 22, 2023Lossy compression of images and videos
Dec. 26 and 29, 2023 No course: Weihnachtenferien
Jan. 2 and 5, 2024 No course: Weihnachtenferien
Jan. 09 and 12, 2024 Test 2 + Symetric cryptography
Jan. 16 and 19, 2024 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.