CSC103 Weekly Schedule Fall 2012
--D. Thiebaut 12:05, 21 August 2012 (EDT)
Office Hours: Tu-Th: 2:00-4:00 p.m. and by appointment.
Weekly Schedule
Week | Topics | Reading |
Week 1 9/6 |
Antikythera mechanism, oldest computer
(start at 1min 47sec)
Harvard research: 1.8 zettabytes in 4 grams of DNA
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Week 2 9/11 |
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World 1 (Logic) | World 2 (Technology) | World 3 (Math) |
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George Boole Expressions that can be True or False |
Electricity Switches (transistors) |
Number systems Decimal: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 |
- Counting in decimal
- Counting in base 8
- Counting in base 2 (binary)
- Adding in decimal
- Adding in base 2
- Exercises
- Thursday
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- Reading
- Primary:
- Video (Part 2) on George Boole and Boolean Algebra. (5.18 min)
- Shannon's MIT Thesis, and boolean theory
- Counting in Binary
- Secondary:
- Primary:
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| Week 3
9/18
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- Tuesday
- Thursday
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- Reading:
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| Week 4
9/25
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- Tuesday
- Thursday
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- Reading
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| Week 5
10/2
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- Tuesday
- Thursday
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- Reading
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| Week 6
10/9
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- Tuesday: Fall Break
- Thursday
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- Reading
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| Week 7
10/16
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- Tuesday
- Thursday: Take-home Final Exam
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- Reading
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| Week 8
10/23
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- Tuesday: Final Exam Q&A
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- Reading
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