| Week | Day | Topic | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 25-29 | Tuesday | Introduction, course administration |
Syllabus
Ch. 1.1 |
| Thursday | Mass of the Holy Spirit day | No Class | |
| September 1-5 | Tuesday | History of Computing | Ch. 1.2 |
| Thursday | Binary numbers and other bases (powerpoint version) | Ch. 2 | |
| September 8-12 | Tuesday | Representations of Data (powerpoint version) | Ch. 3 |
| Thursday | Gates and Circuits (powerpoint version) | Ch. 4 | |
| September 15-19 | Tuesday | Gates and Circuts (powerpoint version) | Ch. 4 |
| Thursday | Hardware (powerpoint version) | Ch. 5 | |
| September 22-25 | Tuesday | Machine Language (powerpoint version) | Ch. 7 |
| Thursday | Review for Exam 1 | Ch. 1-5 | |
| September 29 - October 3 | Tuesday | Exam 1 | |
| Thursday | Intro to High Leven Languages (powerpoint version) | Ch. 8 | |
| October 6 - 10 | Tuesday | Intro to Programming in C (powerpoint version) |
Various online references: Overview of C Introduction to C Programming |
| Thursday | More Programming in C (powerpoint version) | ||
| October 13-17 | Tuesday | Programming in C, part 3 (powerpoint version) | |
| Thursday | Algorithms part 1 (powerpoint version) | Chapter 9 | |
| October 20-24 | Tuesday | Fall break - no class | |
| Thursday | Algorithms part 2 (powerpoint version) |
Chapter 9 Extra C example |
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| October 27-31 | Tuesday | Trees (powerpoint version) | Chapter 9 |
| Thursday | Ethics (powerpoint version) | Various sections in text | |
| November 3-7 | Tuesday | Review session | |
| Thursday | Second midterm | ||
| November 10-14 | Tuesday | Operating Systems (powerpoint version) | Chapter 10 |
| Thursday | Networds (powerpoint version) | Chapter 15 | |
| November 17-21 | Tuesday | The Web (powerpoint version) | Chapter 16 |
| Thursday | AI (powerpoint version) | Chapter 13 | |
| November 24-28 | Tuesday | Limits of computation (powerpoint version) | Chapter 17 |
| Thursday | Happy Thanksgiving! | No class | |
| December 1-5 | Tuesday | Computer Security | Chapter 17 |
| Thursday | Review for final | All topics from class |