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Revision as of 15:21, 5 August 2014

--D. Thiebaut 16:05, 18 January 2013 (EST)

iBook reference

Table of Contents

  • Preface
    • Why
    • Target
  • Introduction
    • Steam Boy
    • Mechanical calculators
      • Addition, subtraction, multiplication, divisions...
  • Several factors: electrical energy, switches, ON/OFF, binary, number systems, math, boolean logic, Shannon ==> Computer
    • Electricity
      • properties: easy storage, easy distribution, easy generation, fast, easy control
      • ON/OFF
    • Binary system versus decimal system.
    • Boolean Logic, George Boole.
    • Logic with electricity and switches
    • Shannon: Combining Logic and arithmetic
    • From the transistor to logic gates
  • Logic Design
    • Logic gate simulator
  • Assembly Language
    • Simulator
    • Performance
    • Bottleneck
  • Von Neumann Architecture
    • The architecture
    • Computer Architecture: how to bypass the bottleneck
  • Example of a High Level Language: Processing
  • From Moore's Law to the Singularity.

Style

PythonCayHorstmann.png
  • Use Python for Everyone by Cay Horstmann as a good example of clear style. Full chapter is available here.


Images

AntikytheraMecanism.png

Antikythera Mechanism, photo taken by Tilemahos Efthimiadis, National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece., taken from commons.wikimedia.org, July 28 2014. Released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

SteamBoyDT.png

Steamboy. D. Thiebaut, 2014, Released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

IceCreamCup3Balls.png

Ice Cream. D. Thiebaut, 2014, Released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

ANDORGatesWithSwitches.png

AND OR gates with switches. D. Thiebaut, 2014, Released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

LogicGatesAndOrNot.png

Inverter, And, and Or gates. D. Thiebaut, 2014, Released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

ICAndGate.jpg

Integrated Circuit, AND gate. D. Thiebaut, 2014, Released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

Conversation.jpg

Daniel Coy, "Conversation", online image, https://flic.kr/p/7mWZpb, Captured July 2014.

AANDNOTb.png

A and Not B, D. Thiebaut, 2014, Released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

2-bitAdderGates.png

2-Bit Adder, D. Thiebaut, 2014, Released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

Scale.gif

Animated Scale, D. Thiebaut, 2014, Released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

NandFlipFlop1.png

Nand Flipflop 1, D. Thiebaut, 2014, Released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

NandFlipFlop2.png

Nand Flipflop 2, D. Thiebaut, 2014, Released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

CalculatorCreativeCommons.png

Ilnanny, "Calculator", online image, openclipart.org/image/800px/svg_to_png/170371/1338745223.png, captured Aug. 1st, 2014.

PrintedCircuitBoard.jpg

Barney Livingston, "BBC B - PCB, CPU removed," online image, farm1.staticflickr.com/83/235291503_080d9656a8_o_d.jpg, captured Aug. 1st, 2014.

CookieMonsterPacMan.png

Cookie Monster, D. Thiebaut, 2014, Released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

ProcessorVsMemorySpeed.png

Data taken from Hennessy & Patterson, Computer Architecture, A Quantitative Approach, 5th Ed., Morgan Kauffman Pub., 2011. (spreadsheet)

CSC103WolframAlpha1billionSeconds.jpg

Wolfram Alpha LLC. 2010. Wolfram|Alpha. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1000000000+seconds (access August 5, 2014).

JohnVonNeumann.jpg

Wikispaces, online image, http://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/John+von+Neumann, Released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license, captured on 8/5/2014.

MulticorePerformanceDrop.png

Performance Drop with Multicores, D. Thiebaut, 2014, Released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

WaterLilyCC0.jpg

Irene Wirsing, Water Lily Pond Pink Sunlight Tar Water, online image, http://pixabay.com/en/water-lily-pond-pink-sunlight-tar-338144/, captured Aug. 5, 2014, released under the [Creative Commons 0.

CSC103 ExponentialGrowth1.png

D. Thiebaut, Exponential Growth, 2014, Released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

CSC103 ExponentialGrowth2.png

D. Thiebaut, Exponential Growth (2), 2014, Released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

CSC103 ExponentialGrowth3.png

D. Thiebaut, Exponential Growth (3), 2014, Released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

CSC103 ExponentialGrowth4.png

D. Thiebaut, Exponential Growth (4), 2014, Released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

HockeyStickAndHelmet.png

OpenClips, Hockey Ice Hockey Puck Hockey Stick Game Helmet, online image, http://pixabay.com/en/hockey-ice-hockey-puck-hockey-stick-155989/, captured Aug. 5, 2014.

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