CSC103 Weekly Schedule 2017

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Week 1 Sept. 8    


Topics: Introduction Lab/Hw Reading
  • Friday
  • No lab or Hw this week
  • Reading



 


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



 


Week 3 Sept. 18    


Topics: Lab/Hw Reading
  • Monday
  • Wednesday
  • Logic Design
  • Logic Gates
  • Logic Lab
  • Friday
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  • 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:




 


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)
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  • Programming the SCS in Assembly
  • Instructions (all documented on this page)
  • LOAD/STORE
  • ADD
  • SUB
  • HALT
  • JUMP
  • COMP
  • JEQ
  • Friday



 


Week 5 Oct. 2    


Topics: Lab/Hw Reading
  • Monday
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  • 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



 


Week 6 Oct. 9    


Topics: Lab/Hw Reading
  • Monday: Fall Break
  • Wednesday
  • Friday

 



 


Week 7 Oct. 16    


Topics: Lab/Hw Reading
  • Monday
  • Wednesday
  • Friday