Basic concepts in hardware. The basic structural components of the PC. Input devices, particularly common graphic devices. Output devices, particularly printers and plotters. Text processing: input, incl. OCR, processing and storing, output of text. Basic types of graphic files, and processing methods of graphic files. The issue of moving 2D image, introduction to 3D graphics. Introduction to sound in computer environment. Fundamentals of software; basic terms, algorithms. Programming languages, translation and interpretation.