Welcome to Chapter 8 “Digital skills”

Today, digital skills are essential to meet the day-to-day demands of your studies and employment. Mastering IT tools is essential, whatever your level or field of study.

In this chapter, you’ll discover several computing devices and operating systems, and learn more about how communication networks work. This chapter also includes modules for exploring the world of data processing and multimedia (text, images, sound, algorithms, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.).

In short, there’s no longer any excuse for pretending to know nothing about digital.

General objective of the chapter :

• Developing fundamental digital skills

• Recognizing the main hardware and peripherals
• To describe an operating system
• Recognizing the key elements of a computer network
• Managing data in a digital environment
• Analysing the structure, function, and processing of a digital image
• Identifying the key elements of digital audio
• Creating a slideshow using PowerPoint software
• Identifying the essential elements of algorithms
• Expressing the method of solving a problem in the form of an algorithm

Part A: Digital environment

➥ Module 1: Recognizing the main equipment
➥ Module 2: Operating system principles
➥ Module 3: Understanding the computer network
➥ Module 4: Managing data

Part B: Multimedia

➥ Module 5: Basic digital image processing
➥ Module 6: Identifying the key elements of digital sound
➥ Module 7: Digital video objects
➥ Module 8: Understanding the interoperability of multimedia objects

Part C: Office automation

➥ Module 9: Exploit your data with spreadsheet software
➥ Module 10: Creating a slideshow with Computer-Aided Presentation (CAP)

Part D: Algorithms and programming

➥ Module 11: Introduction to algorithms for computer science
➥ Module 12: Algorithmic basics