CSC103 Weekly Schedule 2017

--D. Thiebaut (talk) 09:41, 18 July 2017 (EDT)

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CSC103 Home | Syllabus | PIAZZA

 

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Week 1 Sept. 8

Topics: Introduction	Lab/Hw	Reading
Friday Syllabus Introduction slides	No lab or Hw this week	Reading Instructor's Notes

 

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Week 2 Sept. 11

Topics:	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday Continue with history of computers Boole Shannon von Neumann Wednesday Counting in Binary Adding in Binary Friday Binary to Decimal Conversion Logic Gates, Electricity, Transistors slides	Homework 1 is on Moodle, and due Sunday 9/24 midnight.	Reading Instructor's Notes

 

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Week 3 Sept. 18

Topics:	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday Logic Gates Schematics of a computer: The NASA's Apollo computer Using a Logic Simulator slides Wednesday Logic Design Logic Gates Logic Lab Friday Electronic circuit: Logic Gates Data sheet for the AND gate. Data sheet for the NOT gate. Data sheet for the OR gate. slides 2 YouTube videos on building a 2-bit adder with an electronics kit:	Logic Lab (to be done on Wednesday) Homework 2 due 10/1/17 at midnight	Instructor's Notes

 

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Week 4 Sept. 25

Topics:	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday Playing a game: numbers and codes Inside the processor: registers and calculator The Cookie Monster analogy Wednesday the Simple-Computer Simulator (SCS) Programming the SCS in Assembly Instructions (all documented on this page) LOAD/STORE ADD SUB HALT JUMP COMP JEQ slides Friday Assembly Language Lab	Assembly Language Lab	Instructor's Notes

 

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Week 5 Oct. 2

Topics:	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday The von Neumann bottleneck is Moore's Law dead? Watch the YouTube video slides Take the quiz on Moodle. You'll have until Wednesday 10/4/2017 9 a.m. to answer it. Wednesday Additional information on Moore's Law and von Neumann's architecture Review homework More sophisticated assembly language instructions and constructs: COMP and JEQ. Friday Programming loops What is an operating system? How does it work? slides	Homework 3, due 10/11/17 at midnight.	Instructor's Notes

 

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Week 6 Oct. 9

Topics:	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday: Fall Break Wednesday High level programming with the language Processing Friday

 

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Week 7 Oct. 16

Topics:	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday Wednesday Friday