The days section is a table of class meetings. Assigned readings and lecture notes are also included in this table. The topics section is a list of topics. As the semester progresses, topics will be assigned to specific dates.
| 001 | 002 | Topics | Reading | Notes and Aids | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 January | 16 January | Introduction | Chapter 0 | Course web page | Lecture |
| 20 January | 21 January | No class | |||
| 23 January | Snow | ||||
| 22 January | 28 January | Computer hardware history | Chapter 1 |
Alan Turing
John Atanasoff |
Konrad Zuse
Howard Aiken EDSAC |
| 27 January | 30 January |
Earth Simulator
Data/web servers NAS |
Blade servers
Tablet PC Micro-controllers |
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| 29 January | 4 February | Processors | Chapter 2 |
Floating point
Unicode |
IBM Power PC
Intel motherboard "Typical" 2003 PC ad |
| 3 February | 6 February | ||||
| 5 February | 11 February | Peripherals | Chapter 3 |
BlackBerry 6750
DVD-? |
IEEE 1394
USB |
| 10 February | 13 February | ||||
| 12 February | 18 February | Software -- an introduction | Chapter 4 |
INNOPAC
Symantec Windows Mac OS X |
Josh Weinstein's 201 program
The Java code The Java bytecode |
| 17 February | 20 February | ||||
| 19 February | 25 February | Test 1 (Chapters 1 to 3) | |||
| 24 February | 27 February | Word processing | Chapter 5 | TeX example | Adobe products |
| 26 February | 4 March | Spreadsheets and modeling | Chapter 6 |
Using a spreadsheet
VisiCalc Human Genome Project |
SAS Institute
Baron Services |
| 3 March | 6 March | ||||
| 5 March | 18 March | Graphics, Hypermedia, and Multimedia | Chapter 7 | AutoCAD | Virtual L.A. |
| 17 March | |||||
| 19 March | 20 March | Television | How Stuff Works -- Radio Spectrum |
How Stuff Works -- TV
How Stuff Works -- HDTV |
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| 24 March | 25 March | ||||
| 26 March | 27 March | Databases | Chapter 8 | Before | After |
| 31 March | 1 April | Networking | Chapter 9 | NC-REN | UNCA stats |
| 2 April | 3 April | ||||
| 7 April | 8 April | Test 2 (Chapters 4 to 7 plus TV) | |||
| 9 April | 15 April | More networking | Chapter 9 | ||
| 14 April | 18 April | Home networking | |||
| 21 April | 22 April | Network applications | Chapter 10 | ||
| 23 April | 24 April | Network applications | Chapter 11 | ||
| 28 April | 29 April | Computer Security | Chapter 12 | ||
| 30 April | 1 May | More network applications | Chapter 11 | ||
| 5 May | 6 May | Artificial Intelligence | Chapter 14 | ||
| 7 May | 8 May | ||||
| 14 May | 15 May | Final exam | |||