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Book chapters
 
Book chapters

Revision as of 13:26, 25 June 2008

CSC 103: How Computers Work

First half of Fall 2008

Textbook: The Most Complex Machine., by David Eck, A. K. Peters, Natick Ma [1]

Book chapters

  • Chapter 1: What Computers can do. Must read
  • Chapter 2: (read 2.1) computing with Silicon. Arithmetic, circuits
  • Chapter 3: (read 3.1 and 3.3) Building computers
  • Chapter 4: Theoretical computers. Computational universality in Section 4.1 is important
  • Chapter 5: History of computers
  • Chapter 6: Programming: basic concepts (variables, loops, decisions)
  • Chapter 7: Programming Methodology for building large programs
  • Chapter 8: Programming Languages
  • Chapter 9: Applications
  • Chapter 10: Cooperating Computers. Parallelism and networks
  • Chapter 11: Graphics: math, realistic images
  • Chapter 12: AI