Synopsis: 
This course introduces students to fundamentals of telecommunications and communication networks. It provides a comprehensive understanding of telecommunication technologies, standards and protocols. It also provides students an understanding of data communication and representation. Students will develop practical skills in creating typical local area communication networks and resolving basic communication errors using packet tracer as well as developing a cipher to encrypt and decrypt a piece of information.

This an introductory course meant to introduce students to fundamentals of computer programming using Python programming language. The main topics include basic concepts of programming, conditional statements and expressions, flow control (iterations/loops), functions, import libraries, data structures, file and string processing.