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Revision as of 17:02, 25 June 2008
CSC 103: How Computers Work
Schedule
First half of Fall 2008
Textbook
The Most Complex Machine., by David Eck, A. K. Peters, Natick Ma [1]
Book chapters
- Chapter 1: What Computers can do. Must read
- Chapter 2: (read 2.1) computing with Silicon. Arithmetic, circuits
- Chapter 3: (read 3.1 and 3.3) Building computers
- Chapter 4: Theoretical computers. Computational universality in Section 4.1 is important
- Chapter 5: History of computers
- Chapter 6: Programming: basic concepts (variables, loops, decisions)
- Chapter 7: Programming Methodology for building large programs
- Chapter 8: Programming Languages
- Chapter 9: Applications
- Chapter 10: Cooperating Computers. Parallelism and networks
- Chapter 11: Graphics: math, realistic images
- Chapter 12: AI
Organization and Schedule
- Week 1:
- Chapter 1, general introduction
- Week 2:
- Chapter 2, binary system, arithmetic, logic gates
- Chapter 2, logic gates, binary adder
- Week3:
- Building a computer
- von Neuman architecture
- Von Neuman bottleneck
- CPU, RAM, Secondary Memory
- Case Study: the Suse EEE, and the switch from magnetic to semiconductor storage
- History of computers
- video "Machine that changed the world"
- Loom, Craig.
- Building a computer
- Week 4:
- Client/Server architecture.
- Trends.
- Services.
- Google vs. Microsoft
- Programming: Javascript
- Client/Server architecture.
- Week 5:
- Programming: Javascript
- Programming: Javascript
- Week 6:
- Programming: other languages (Macros?)
- Singularity, AI
- Week 7:
- Chapter 4, NP, solvability, towers of hanoi
- Singularity
- Week 8:
- Advanced material