This unit provides an overview of the discipline of IT, the historical perspectives and fundamental concepts of computation. It describes IT relates to other computing disciplines. It covers topics related to both computer and systems' architecture, with an overall focus on the services and capabilities that IT infrastructure solutions enable in an organizational context. This unit equips students with the appropriate skills to troubleshoot hardware problems for a computer. An introduction to web development technologies xhtml and css will also be explored.
HIT164 is a foundation IT unit and has two main sections: hardware and web that lead on to more advanced web knowledge in HIT226.
This unit is reliant on on-line materials. Students must have access to a reliable high-speed broadband connection.