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** Introduce Syllabus
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** Introduction to the class and the 1/2 semester schedule
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** Organization of the class
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** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eAk6oNBSMU a short movie] to get the discussion started...
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** some examples of computers:
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<center>[[File:Antikythera.jpg|400px]]<br />Antikythera mechanism, oldest computer</center>
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(start at 1min 47sec)
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Harvard research: [http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9230401/Harvard_stores_70_billion_books_using_DNA 1.8 zettabytes in 4 grams of DNA]</center>
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*** <font color="magenta">code</font>:  Translating from one system of values to another system.
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** <font color="magenta">Electricity</font>
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** <font color="magenta">The Binary System</font>: a system where the only two numbers available are 0 and 1.  Every operation that we can do in decimal, with 10 digits, we can also do in binary.
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** <font color="magenta">The Transistor</font>: A switch controlled by electricity. 
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* Counting in binary
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** '''Announcement''': <font color="red">If you want to take CSC102 and haven't contacted Pippin Wolfe (apwolfe@smith.edu), please do so now!</font>
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** Quick recap of Tuesday's lecture.
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** A [http://cs.smith.edu/~thiebaut/videos/Charles_Babbage_and_his_Difference_Engine.flv movie on Babbage's] '''Difference Engine'''
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* We continue counting in binary, then move on to simple additions in binary, remembering first how we do additions by hand in decimal.
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* Figuring out the value of a binary number: what is the value of 1110, for example?
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* ==> Main message: everything we can do in decimal we can do in binary
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* Recap: 
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** at some point in time, engineers had very fast electronic switches at their disposition in the form of transistors
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** mathematicians had shown that a binary system allowed the same quality of arithmetic as the decimal system.
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* Comes Boole (1815-1864), and the boolean algebra (very soon we'll talk about Shannon, who linked Boole's work with binary arithmetic.  More on that later)
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** Boolean assertions can be either '''True''' or '''False'''
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** new boolean assertions can be combined with simple ''operators'' to form other assertions that are also boolean and can only be '''True''' or '''False'''
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** The operators are '''AND''', '''OR''', and '''NOT'''.  They are defined by '''truth tables'''.
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** Several examples to discuss in class:
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*** Alarm system to go to CSC103 the right day at the right time
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*** Alarm system to allow one to stay in bed during the weekend
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*** True/False machine to pick ice cream
 
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** Primary:
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***[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl2RlVekfwM Video] (Part 2) on George Boole and Boolean Algebra. (5.18 min)
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***[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_E._Shannon#Boolean_theory Shannon's MIT Thesis], and boolean theory
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***[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_numeral_system#Counting_in_binary Counting in Binary]
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** Secondary:
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*** [[CSC103:_DT%27s_Notes_1 | Instructor's Notes]] (read only the beginning part)
 
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* '''Tuesday'''
 
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** Review of where we are
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** Binary system
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** Boolean variables, boolean operators, and boolean functions
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** The "ice cream machine" example
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** From boolean function to truth table
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** From truth table to boolean function
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** Shannon's thesis (1948): we can do arithmetic with logic!
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** Look at the binary addition as an operation in the world of logic
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** Logic gates: the AND gate, the OR gate, and the NOT gate (also called inverter).
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** building a 2-bit adder with logic gates.
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** Electronic circuit: Logic Gates
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** [http://cs.smith.edu/~thiebaut/classes/270/datasheets/sn74ls08rev5.pdf Data sheet] for the AND gate.
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** [http://maven.smith.edu/~thiebaut/classes/270/datasheets/sn74ls04rev5.pdf Data sheet] for the NOT gate.
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** [http://maven.smith.edu/~thiebaut/classes/270/datasheets/sn74ls32rev5.pdf Data sheet] for the OR gate.
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** Lab (you may want to bring your laptop if you prefer to work on your laptop rather than the iMacs)
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** The lab is available [[CSC103 Logic Lab 2013 | here]].
 
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* [[CSC103 Homework 1 2013 | Homework 1]] due 9/17/13 at 9:00 a.m. and [[CSC103 Homework 1 Solution 2013 | solution]]
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* [[CSC103 Logic Lab 2013 | Lab 1]] to be done in class on 9/12/13.  [[Media:CSC103Lab1Solutions.pdf | lab solution]].
 
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** [[CSC103:_DT%27s_Notes_1 | Instructor's Notes]]
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** Logic Gates on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_gate wikipedia]: You can skip the Universal Logic Gate section, the De Morgan section, and the remaining sections until the end.
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** [http://math.hws.edu/TMCM/java/xLogicCircuits/ A good introduction on the Logic Circuit Simulator]
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** [http://klabs.org/history/ech/agc_schematics/index.htm Schematics from NASA]
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** [[CSC103_Exercise:_Functional_Description_to_Logic_Design | Exercises]] to do in class
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** From logic gates to flip-flops: the magic
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** [[CSC103_A_Game_of_Numbers | Let's play a game!]]
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** [http://cs.smith.edu/~thiebaut/classes/103/applets.htm The xComputer Simulator]
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** Programming in Assembly Language
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** [[CSC103_Basic_Instructions | Basic Instruction Set]]
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** Assembly Language
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*** The Cookie Monster!
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*** the [http://maven.smith.edu/~thiebaut/classes/103/applets.htm xComputer Simulator]
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*** the [[CSC103 Basic Instructions| Instruction Set]] for our computer
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*** [[CSC103 Assembly Program 1 | A first program]]
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*** [[CSC103 Assembly Program 2 | A second program]]
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*** Execution of selected instructions ([[Media:CSC103InstructionsBeforeAfter.pdf|pdf]])
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*** [[CSC103 Assembly Language Lab (version 2) 2013| Lab]] on Assembly Language
 
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* [[CSC103 Homework 2 2013 | Homework 2]] and [[CSC103_Homework_2_Solution_2013 | Solution]]
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* [[CSC103 Assembly Language Lab (version 2) 2013 | Lab 2]] on Assembly Language
 
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture von Neumann's bottleneck]
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* [http://math.hws.edu/TMCM/java/labs/xComputerLab1.html A good description of the Computer simulator]
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* You will find Wikipedia's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_processing_unit description of the processor] interesting.  Concentrate mostly on the sections labeled '''Microprocessor''', '''Operation''', and '''Clock Rate'''.
 
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** [[CSC103 Assembly Language Exercises| Exercises]]
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** Solution to first problems from Lab 2
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* '''Thursday''' <font color="magenta">MOUNTAIN DAY!</font>
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*  [[CSC103 Homework 3 2013 | Homework 3]] is available.  Due <strike>10/3/13</strike> 10/8/13 @ 9:00 a.m.
  
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** Going over the last problem of Lab 2
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** The '''Von Neumann''' bottleneck.
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** '''Moore's Law''', first introduced in 1965.  The number of transistors in circuits doubles every 18 months.  What it is, what it means, how it has been extended.
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** Understanding Exponential Growth
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** [http://www.technologyreview.com/news/518871/we-need-a-moores-law-for-medicine/ We need a Moore's Law in medicine...]
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** [http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/08/29/darpa-chief-and-intel-fellow-moores-law-is-ending-soon/  The end of Moore's Law]
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** [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/26/stanford_boffins_build_carbon_nanotune_computer/ New processor made of Nanotubes], published 26 Sept. 2013
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** What is Processing?  Ben Fry, one of the co-inventors of the language, explains.
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:This is less about Processing than about data visualization, and how '''Ben Fry''', one of the co-authors of Processing uses the language to represent data.  Several of his projects are presented.
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:Ben Fry generated the computer graphics for Minority Report (start watching around Time Stamp 7 minutes 25 seconds).
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** Introduction to the language "Processing": [[Introduction_to_Processing | Web Page]], [http://cs.smith.edu/dftwiki/images/IntroductionToProcessing_thiebaut_CSC103.key  Keynote], [http://cs.smith.edu/dftwiki/images/IntroductionToProcessing_thiebaut_CSC103.mov Quicktime]
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** To download and install Processing, go to '''[http://processing.org Processing.org]'''
  
 
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** Programming in  '''[http://processing.org Processing]''': [[CSC103_Processing_Lab | Processing Lab]]
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**  '''[http://processing.org Processing]''' Lab (<font color="red">Please install Processing on your computer before the lab, if you are going to use your own laptop.  The directions can be found [[CSC103 Directions for Installing Processing | here]]</font>).
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[[Image:FacebookPage1013.png|right|100px|link=https://www.facebook.com/pages/Computer-Science-Smith-College/264041891883]]
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** [[Media:CSC103_PCDemolitionLab_2013.pdf | PC Demolition Lab]] (see the pictures on the  [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Computer-Science-Smith-College/264041891883 department Facebook page]!)
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** <font color="magenta">Take-Home Exam</font>
  
 
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* '''Tuesday''': <font color="magenta">Fall Break</font>
 
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*** [http://cs.smith.edu/~thiebaut/research/singularity/ieee_spectrum__signs_of_the_singularity.pdf Signs of the Singularity] by Vernor Vinge.
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*** [http://cs.smith.edu/~thiebaut/research/singularity/ieee_spectrum__can_machines_be_conscious.pdf Can Machines Be Conscious?], Christof Koch and Giulio Tononi.
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** Ray Kurzweil on the Singularity.  Bio taken from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil Wikipedia]:
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** [[Information_about_the_Singularity | Additional articles]] on the issue of the Singularity (including IEEE Spectrum issue on the subject).
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