Open Educational Resource (OER) presentations for IT Systems

This page collects OER presentations (HTML slides with embedded audio and PDF variants, available under free and open Creative Commons licenses) for a course on IT Systems for 4th-term students in the Bachelor program in Information Systems at the University of Münster, Germany.

Note: OER presentations (HTML slides and PDF documents) linked here are generated automatically from their source files (with the FLOSS software emacs-reveal). Presentations and source files are published under the Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 4.0. Files will be added and updated throughout the term (and thereafter).

The PDF versions below come in two variants: the first one mirrors the presentation layout on screen, while the second one provides a condensed format, generated via LaTeX from Org source files.

• Computer Architecture
  • List of index terms for IT Systems (may simplify search for specific topics).
  • Course Overview (PDF, condensed PDF)
  • Nand to Tetris (PDF, condensed PDF)
  • Boolean Logic I (PDF, condensed PDF)
  • Boolean Logic II (PDF, condensed PDF)
  • Combinational Circuits I (PDF, condensed PDF)
  • Combinational Circuits II (PDF, condensed PDF)
  • Hack Memory (PDF, condensed PDF)
  • Machine and Assembly Language (PDF, condensed PDF)
  • Computer Architecture (PDF, condensed PDF)
• Operating Systems (OSs)
  • OS Motivation (PDF, condensed PDF)
  • OS Overview (PDF, condensed PDF)
  • OS Introduction (PDF, condensed PDF)

In the spirit of Open Educational Resources (OER), source files, necessary software, and presentations are published in this GitLab repository under free licenses. All OER presentations are created from plain text files in a simple text format called Org Mode (a lightweight markup language), focusing on content, while layout is defined separately. Importantly, the separation of content and layout simplifies collaboration across organizational boundaries, and the use of a simple text format enables comparisons of adapted or enhanced versions (with diff-like functionality).

Using the free software emacs-reveal these text files are translated into reveal.js HTML presentations, which can be viewed on (almost) any device with a Web browser. In times of dragnet surveillance and surreptitious as well as blatant data brokerage I recommend the Firefox variant Tor Browser as tool for digital self-defense (here in English and here in German); presentations work for me under the higher-than-default “Safer” security settings in Tor Browser.