Introduction to Computing

Catalog description

Primarily for DH students, the course combines historical study with a hands-on approach to computers their growing role in academic research, publishing, libraries, and the arts. Topics will include the structure of computers, the relation of hardware and software, text and image markup and publishing, database theory and design, modeling and visualization, text analytics, procedural logic, and the basic concepts of programming, artificial intelligence, and the social, ethical, and intellectual contexts for computing.