Revision as of 15:28, 29 January 2012

Weekly Schedule

Week	Topics	Reading
Week 1 1/30	Monday Introduction to the class and the 1/2 semester Organization of the class a short movie to get the discussion started... some examples of computers: (start at 1min 47sec) 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. 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.
Week 2 2/6	Monday Wednesday
Week 3 2/13	Monday Wednesday
Week 4 2/20	Monday Wednesday
Week 5 2/27	Monday Wednesday
Week 6 3/5	Monday Wednesday
Week 7 3/12	Take Home Exam Week
Week 7 3/19	Spring Break

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 ** Keywords:
-*** <br />code<br />:  Translating from one system of values to another system.
+*** <font color="magenta">code</font>:  Translating from one system of values to another system.
 ** <font color="magenta">Electricity</font>
 ** <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.