Tentative Syllabus

Because I teach to the students, and not to the syllabus, these dates and topics are tentative and subject to change without warning. In particular, if I don’t discuss something you’re interested in, ask about it! I may very well add it or modify what I’m covering to include it.

	date	topic	reading
1.	Tue, Jan 4	Introduction, computer hardware	White, §1
2.	Thu, Jan 6	More about computer hardware	White, §2
3.	Tue, Jan 11	Brief history of computing; operating systems due: Lab exercise 1	White, pp. 2–9; §3,4
4.	Thu, Jan 13	Transistors and microprocessors; storing data due: Prospectus	White, §5, 6, 10, 11
5.	Tue, Jan 18	Storing data; input and output due: Lab exercise 2	White, §12–16
6.	Thu, Jan 20	Guest lecture on writing a term paper; input, output	White, §17–19
7.	Tue, Jan 25	Output, printers due: Lab exercise 3	White, §32, 33
8.	Thu, Jan 27	Multimedia due: Progress report	White, §20, 21
9.	Tue, Feb 1	Games due: Lab exercise 4	White, §22, 23
10.	Thu, Feb 3	Networks and the Internet (part 1)	White, §24–27
11.	Tue, Feb 8	Networks and the Internet (part 2) due: Lab exercise 5	White, §28–31
12.	Thu, Feb 10	Midterm
13.	Tue, Feb 15	Programming languages and software applications	White, §7–9
14.	Thu, Feb 17	Introduction to Python due: “Spew” paper	Dawson, §1
15.	Tue, Feb 22	Values: strings and numbers due: Lab exercise 6	Dawson, §2
16.	Thu, Feb 24	Variables, operations, input and exceptions	Dawson, §2
17.	Tue, Mar 1	Conditional statements, while loops due: Lab exercise 7	Dawson, §3
18.	Thu, Mar 3	For loops, tuples, lists due: Final term paper	Dawson, §4, 5
19.	Tue, Mar 8	Functions due: Lab exercise 8	Dawson, §6
20.	Thu, Mar 10	File I/O, exceptions	Dawson, §7
	Thu, Mar 17	Final Examination (10:30AM–12:30PM)

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ECS 15, Introduction to Computers Winter Quarter 2011

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