CSC103 Weekly Schedule 2013

--D. Thiebaut 10:23, 1 April 2013 (EDT)

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Syllabus | PIAZZA

Week	Topics	Reading
Week 1 9/3	Tuesday Syllabus Introduction to the class and the 1/2 semester schedule Organization of the class a short movie to get the discussion started... some examples of computers: Antikythera mechanism, oldest computer (start at 1min 47sec) Harvard research: 1.8 zettabytes in 4 grams of DNA Keywords: 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. One giant 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. Thursday	Reading Primary: Video (Part 2) on George Boole and Boolean Algebra. (5.18 min) Shannon's MIT Thesis, and boolean theory Counting in Binary Secondary: Instructor's Notes (read only the beginning part)
Week 2 9/10	Tuesday Thursday
Week 3 9/17	Tuesday Thursday
Week 4 9/24	Tuesday Thursday
Week 5 10/1	Tuesday Thursday
Week 6 10/8	Tuesday Thursday
Week 7 10/15	Tuesday: Fall Break Thursday