Introduction to Computers (I)

Instructor:

殷堂凱, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
Office hours: Thursday 5-6
Office: 理工二 300-3
Phone: 0930-971803
Email: tkyin@nuk.edu.tw

TA:

Time:

Lectures: Tuesday 5-7

Location:

Lectures and Labs: 第一綜合教室 206

Objectives:

1. Understanding how the computers operate and writing programs to solve problems.

2. Learning C language in structured program developments

3. Exercising debugging and testing in developing programs

Lecture content:

1. Basic Concepts: hardware, OS, evolution of computer systems, multitasking, multithreads, multiple CPUs, running environments, computer networks

2. C programming language: variable names, scopes, control procedure, data types, subroutines

Lecture syllabus:  

　

Lecture	Date	Subject	Note
1	9/21	Introduction to computers
2	9/28		Moon festival.  No class.
3	10/5	Introduction to computers	HW1 given
4	10/12	The need of computation	HW1 due
5	10/19	Inside the computer	HW2 given
6	10/26	Number systems	HW2 due
7	11/2		HW3 given
8	11/9		HW3 due
9	11/16	Midterm exam
10	11/23
11	11/30		HW4 given
12	12/7		HW4 due
13	12/14		HW5 given
14	12/21		HW5 due
15	12/28		HW6 given
16	1/4		HW6 due
17	1/11
18	1/18	Final exam

Grade:

• Midterm (30%)
• Final (30%)
• 6 Homework assignments (30%)
• Class attendance (10%)

Textbook:

C How To Program, Fourth Edition, by H. M. Deitel and P. J. Deitel, Pearson, 2004. 全華代理

References:

Computers, Information Technology in Perspective, Twelfth Edition, by Larry Long and Nancy Long, Pearson, 2005.