Introduction to Computers

for non-CS/EE majors
Spring 2003
Class#: 901 60100, Session#: 01

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Instructor:

Polly Huang

Department of Electrical Engineering

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Objectives:

Lectures: Knowing how your computer works

Lecture content:

Lecture syllabus: (click on the link to get the lecture slides for that week)

02/19 Emergence of the modern computer
02/26 0 and 1 -- the simple, yet magical
03/05 Inside your PC -- it's more than a computer
03/12 Inside your PC -- it's more than a computer (cont.)
03/19 Windows or Linux-- why many think Microsoft is evil
03/26 Programmer's secret life -- the dark side of computer science
04/02 Connecting to the Internet -- everybody does that
04/09 Online game -- the new hope (invited lecture)
04/16 Mid-term
04/23 WWW -- the .com bubble
04/30 Not a Utopia -- how vulnerable you are on the Internet
05/07 Security measures -- how to protect yourself
05/14 Information management -- database system
05/21 Law and punishment -- you might be guilty (invited lecture) (admin slides)
05/28 Do you google? -- the Internet search engines
06/04 No class (the dragon boat festival)
06/11 I want that mp3 file -- peer-to-peer file sharing
06/18 Final

Exams:

Midterm | Solution
Final | Solution

Textbook:

There is no textbook for this course. The exams and assignments will be based on the slides and the reference pointers given at the end of each lecture.

If you wish to know more:

Computers, Tools For An Information Age, 7th ed., by H.L.Capron & J.A. Johnson. 2002