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Introduction to computing and the Internet. Dr. Lahcen Ouarbya 29 St-James, Room 6 Email: lahcen@doc.gold.ac.uk Tel: 020 7717 2263 Surgery hour: Friday 2 - 3 pm. Chapter 1Course Organisation. Based on the University of London study guide:
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Introduction to computing and the Internet Dr. Lahcen Ouarbya 29 St-James, Room 6 Email: lahcen@doc.gold.ac.uk Tel: 020 7717 2263 Surgery hour: Friday 2 - 3 pm cis110
Chapter 1Course Organisation • Based on the University of London study guide: Introduction to Computing and the Internet, published by Francis Lin (2004). cis110
First Semester (1) • The aim: • How computers work? • How is information stored in a computer? • How is information processed in a computer? • How is information represented in a computer? • How are computing operations co-ordinated and managed? cis110
First Semester (2) • To answer the previous questions: • We will need to look at various components of the hardware and software: • Memories: • hard disks, • floppy disks, • CDROM, • The central processing unit (CPU), • The system bus, • Two’s complement representation, floating point, ASCII, Unicode • Operating Systems cis110
Organising your studies(2) • Study guide on its own is not enough • Additional reading • 3-5 Hours per week • Recommended reference books • Doing exercises cis110
Useful Textbooks • William Stallings, (2003). Computer Organization and Architecture: Designing for Performance. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice-Hall. http://williamstallings.com/COA5e.html • J. Glenn Brookshear, Computer Science (an overview), Sixth edition. Addison-Wesley, 2000. • Barry Wilkinson, Computer architecture (design and performance). Second Edition. Prentice Hall, 1996. • Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Structure Computer Organization. Third Edition. Prentice Hall, 1990 • White, R. (2002). How Computers Work. 6th Edition. (Indianapolis, Indiana:: QUE, 2002) edition [ISBN 0789725495] cis110
Other useful books • Martin Bryan, “ SGML and HTML explained ’’.Addison-Wesley • William Davis, “ Operating Systems ’’. Addison-Wesley • Gary Nutt, “ Operating Systems a modern perspective’’. Addison-Wesley. cis110
Assignments and Exam • Two assignments in total • 1st assignment (1 0%) • 2nd assignment (10%) • Late submissions are not accepted • Assignments and exam • Assignments (20 %) • Exam (80%). • Exam (2 parts) • Part A (1st semester) (3 questions – choose 2) • Part B (2nd semester) (3 questions – choose 2) cis110
Labs • Introduction to HTML • Lab exercises: • http://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/~mas01lo/teaching/cis110/labs/labs.html cis110
Lecture Slides • http://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/~mas01lo/teaching_07/cis110/2007-08/lectures/lectures.html cis110