Week 1

That week looked very fresh for me. That was the starting week for my FSP study. I felt happy to meet all friends and I also felt hesitate to attend the classes because of we chose subjects to study by our own. After I got into the IT class, lecturer passed the attendance list to sign. After I saw the attendance list, I felt better because my name was there.

Before lecturer taught us the lesson, we have had an icebreaking session. I could make many more friends and especially I could get to know my lecturer’s sweet name is Nur Khairunnisha Zainal. After that she informed us about how we get mark from this course and how many assignments, projects and examinations during classes. She also told us about the rules and regulations, dos and don’ts in her classes. She guided me very clear about all the info and I feel very gladsome to study with her.

About half hour she finished everything about icebreaking, rules in class, course outline and references. She started the lesson of Introduction to Information Technology. She explained us the differences between Data and Information.

-          Data is a raw fact and is a collection of facts, figures and statistics related to an object.

Example of data such as words, images, numbers and etc.

-          Information is a data that is organized and meaningful

Example of information such as purpose, meaning, process and etc.

More than that, I studied about data integrity is about Garbage in and Garbage out. GIGO is a computer phrase that means you cannot create correct information from incorrect data. She also taught us about quality of valuable information that consist of 6 characteristic are accurate, verifiable, timely, organize, complete and useful. The first week, I could get much knowledge from my lecturer. She taught me all above and also there are some more knowledge of IT that I got from her. I studied about how IT is used in economics. IT is very useful in economics. For instant, about 10 years ago when I was young was very difficult to send letters and documents to others but now because of internet is used worldwide, we can send letters, documents, transfer money and ,etc, by internet. IT makes the world become smaller and easier.

Information has two basic elements are reach and richness which are reach means the amount of people at homes or at works exchanging information and richness means amount of information shared in transaction.