CSE-111 Great Idea in Computer Science, Summer 2009

Instructor:

Albert Y. C. Chen
Ph.D. Candidate
Computer Science and Engineering
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

E-mail: aychen (at) buffalo (dot) edu

Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday, 12:30pm-1:00pm @ Park 143


Announcements

• Final exam will be held at 2pm on 6/24 (Wednesday)
• You will be able to view your final scores on UB learns after midnight, 6/24.
• If you want to see your graded exam paper, schedule to meet no later than Friday 6/26.

Class Schedule, Handouts, and Assignments

Date	Lecture #	Topic
05/18	01	Introduction & Brief Syllabus
	02	What is a computer*
	03	Analog, Digital, Binary*
	03s	Suppplmentary Material for Analog versus Digital
	04	Coding Information*
05/20	05	Binary Decimal Conversion*
	06	Binary Addition*
	07	Signed Number, Binary Subtraction, and 2's Complement*
	08	Bits*
	HW	HW1 (8%/100%), due 05/27 in class
	lab	Practicing binary/decimal conversion, binary aithmetics
05/25		Memorial day observed. All UB classes canceled.
05/27	09	Introduction to Logics*
	10	Logic Problems*
	10s	AND OR basics*
	11	Interpreting Logic Gates*
	HW	HW2 (8%/100%), due 06/01 in class
	lab	Practicing the conversion of logic expression --> logic gates, logic expression --> turth tables.
6/1	12	Evaluating Logic Gates*
	13	Building an Adder*
	14	Algorithms*
	lab	Practicing the conversion between logic  expression <--> logic gates <--> truth tables
6/3	Exam	1pm-3pm: lecture review 3pm-5pm: Midterm Exam
6/8	15	Karel: Intruduction*
	16	Karel: First Program*
	lab	In lab programming exercise
6/10	17	Karel: DEFINE-NEW-INSTRUCTION, ITERATE*
	18	Karel: IF THEN, ELSE*
	HW	Programming Assignment 1 (12%/100%), due 6/15 in class Initial World File
	lab	Solving programming assignment 1
6/15	19	Karel: Nested If, While*
	20	What's on your Desktop?---A Gentle Introduction to Operating Systems*
		Supplementary Materials A brief history of computers Microsoft Windows History Steve Jobs demos Apple Macintosh, 1984 Snow leopard OS X 10.6 demo
	HW	Programming Assignment 2 (12%/100%), due 6/15 in class Initial World File
	lab	Solving programming assignment 1 & 2
6/17	21	Internet---how does it work and where did it came from?*
	22	Cryptography and its relation to Internet security?*
	23	Phishing?*
	lab	Solving programming assignment 2
6/22	24	Lecture review & final exam topics outline === Final Exam Study Guide ===
	lab	Solving programming assignment 2
6/24	Exam	1pm-2pm: lecture review 2pm-5pm: Final Exam

* Slides from Mrs. Helene G. Kershner