CSC103 2008

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CSC 103: How Computers Work

Schedule

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

Schedule

  • Week 1:
    • Chapter 1, general introduction
  • Week 2:
    • Chapter 2, binary system, arithmetic, logic gates
    • Chapter 2, logic gates, binary adder
  • Week3:
    • Chapter 4, NP, solvability, towers of hanoi
    • History of computers, video "Machine that changed the world", Loom, Craig.
  • Week 4: