CSC103 Weekly Schedule 2017

--D. Thiebaut (talk) 09:41, 18 July 2017 (EDT)

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CSC103 Home | Syllabus | PIAZZA

 

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Week 1 Sept. 8

Topics: Introduction	Lab/Hw	Reading
Friday Syllabus Introduction slides	No lab or Hw this week	Reading Instructor's Notes

 

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Week 2 Sept. 11

Topics:	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday Continue with history of computers Boole Shannon von Neumann Wednesday Counting in Binary Adding in Binary Friday Binary to Decimal Conversion Logic Gates, Electricity, Transistors slides	Homework 1 is on Moodle, and due Sunday 9/24 midnight.	Reading Instructor's Notes

 

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Week 3 Sept. 18

Topics:	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday Logic Gates Schematics of a computer: The NASA's Apollo computer Using a Logic Simulator slides Wednesday Logic Design Logic Gates Logic Lab Friday Electronic circuit: Logic Gates Data sheet for the AND gate. Data sheet for the NOT gate. Data sheet for the OR gate. slides 2 YouTube videos on building a 2-bit adder with an electronics kit:	Logic Lab (to be done on Wednesday) Homework 2 due 10/1/17 at midnight	Instructor's Notes

 

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Week 4 Sept. 25

Topics:	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday Playing a game: numbers and codes Inside the processor: registers and calculator The Cookie Monster analogy Wednesday the Simple-Computer Simulator (SCS) Programming the SCS in Assembly Instructions (all documented on this page) LOAD/STORE ADD SUB HALT JUMP COMP JEQ slides Friday Assembly Language Lab	Assembly Language Lab	Instructor's Notes

 

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Week 5 Oct. 2

Topics:	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday The von Neumann bottleneck is Moore's Law dead? Watch the YouTube video slides Take the quiz on Moodle. You'll have until Wednesday 10/4/2017 9 a.m. to answer it. Wednesday Additional information on Moore's Law and von Neumann's architecture Review homework More sophisticated assembly language instructions and constructs: COMP and JEQ. Friday Programming loops What is an operating system? How does it work? slides	Homework 3, due 10/11/17 at midnight. Homework 3 Solution	Instructor's Notes

 

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Week 6 Oct. 9

Topics:	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday: Fall Break Wednesday High level programming with the language Processing slides Friday Processing Lab, Part 1	Processing Lab, I	Watch Ben Fry's video in its entirety Follow the complete Hello Processing tutorial by Dan Shiffman

 

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Week 7 Oct. 16

Topics:	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday Processing: for loops and tests slides Wednesday Processing Lab #2 1-week take-home Final Exam given out. Friday	Final exam given out on Wednesday.	Read Dan Shiffman's page on color Read Processing's page on the if statement Read Processing's page on the for loop

 

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Week 8 Oct. 23

Topics:	Lab/Hw	Reading
Monday: Last Class