CSC103 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