** Schematics from [http://klabs.org/history/ech/agc_schematics/index.htm NASA]
** Schematics from [http://klabs.org/history/ech/agc_schematics/index.htm NASA]
** [[CSC103 Exercise: Functional Description to Logic Design | Exercise]] on Logic Design: a review of the process of going from a description of the function to a circuit.
** [[CSC103 Exercise: Functional Description to Logic Design | Exercise]] on Logic Design: a review of the process of going from a description of the function to a circuit.
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** Identifying various parts inside a computer. We want to be able to recognize:
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*** The processor
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*** The Crystal
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*** The Random Access Memory (RAM)
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*** The power supply
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*** The mother board
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*** The hard disk
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*** The optical disk (DVD/CD player/burner)
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*** The Wiring
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*** Various Ports
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** Creating a wiki page on the [http://cs.smith.edu/classwiki/index.php/CSC103_Page_2012 ClassWiki] system (owned by the Smith CS Department)
code: Translating from one system of values to another system.
Electricity
The Binary System: 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.
The Transistor: A switch controlled by electricity.
Two giants for computer science:
George Boole (1779-1848): logic expression = boolean expression. Logic: creating formulas where variables are combined by operators. The variables are boolean variables, the operators are logic operators. Any formula can be represented with a combination of just three operators: AND, OR, and NOT.
Claude Shannon (1916-2001): writes a Master's thesis at MIT in 1948, which states that any binary numerical computation can be performed using logic expressions and logic operators.
George Boole (1779-1848): logic expression = boolean expression. Logic: creating formulas where variables are combined by operators. The variables are boolean variables, the operators are logic operators. Any formula can be represented with a combination of just three operators: AND, OR, and NOT.
Claude Shannon (1916-2001): writes a Master's thesis at MIT in 1948, which states that any binary numerical computation can be performed using logic expressions and logic operators.
