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CSC 101 — Overview of Computer Science

Spring 2008
Wake Forest University

Course Calendar

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Date
No.
 Topics and Lecture Notes Suggested Reading
(in Dale & Lewis unless otherwise noted)
Lab Topic
Final Exam Schedule:
If you wish to change to one of the other sceduled final exam times, please email your request to Prof. Kell by April 25th.
  Saturday May 3, 2 pm: Final Exam for the 11:00 section — in 016 Manchester Hall
  Monday May 5, 9 am: Final Exam for the 2:00 section — in 024 Manchester Hall
  Thursday May 8, 9 am: Final Exam for the 9:00 section — in 024 Manchester Hall
1 1/16 0
1		 Course Introduction.
The Big Picture.		 pp. 2-7, 23-27. No Lab
This Week
1/18 2 A Brief History of Computing. pp. 8-17.
2 1/21 MLK Day — No Class 0. Laboratory
Overview
1/23 3 The Development of Commercial Computers.  
1/25 4 The Internet and the World Wide Web. pp. 504-510.
3 1/28 5 HTML: The Language of the Web. pp. 510-516.
(Castro pp. 13-42.) 		1. HTML I
1/30 6 Internet Search Engines. Google. pp. 507-508.
2/1 7 Exam #1  
4 2/4 8 Analog, Binary and Digital Concepts. pp. 32-34, 43-59. 2. HTML II
2/6 9 Digital Representations of Discrete Data: Text and Simple Numbers.
Numbering Systems: Binary, Decimal, Hexadecimal, etc. 		pp. 34-43, 66-73, 81.
2/8 10 Integer and Floating-Point Number Representations. pp. 59-66, 532-538, 546-549.
5 2/11 11 Computer Organization: The von Neumann Architecture. Chapter 5, pp. 538-539. 3. Web Page Authoring
with Dreamweaver
2/13 12 Auxiliary Storage Devices and I/O Peripherals.  
2/15 13 Boolean Logic.
Circuits and Logic Gates. 		Chapter 4.
6 2/18 14 Exam #2   4. Cascading Style Sheets
and HTML Forms
2/20 15 Digital Media.
Digital Images. 		pp. 73-80.
2/22 16 Digital Image Compression and Storage.  
7 2/25 17 Digital Image Manipulation.   5. Digital Image
Manipulation
2/27 18 Digital Audio. pp. 73-80.
2/29 19 Digital Audio: Music Synthesis.  
8 3/3 20 Computer Speech: Synthesis, Recognition, and Comprehension. pp. 424-428. 6. Digital Audio
Manipulation
3/5 21 Exam #3  
3/7 22 Digital Video and Video Compression. p. 80.
  3/10-14 Spring Break — No Classes
9 3/17 23 Problem Solving and Algorithm Design.
Software Engineering. 		Chapter 6. 7. Digital Video
Editing
3/19 24 Low-Level Programming Languages.
Software Engineering. 		Chapter 7.
3/21 Good Friday — No Class
10 3/24 25 High-Level Programming Languages. Chapter 8, pp. 17-23, 516-521. 8. Client-side and
Server-side Scripting
3/26 26 Compilation and Interpretation.
Programming Concepts. 		Chapter 8, pp. 540-549.
3/28 27 Exam #4  
11 3/31 28 Risks, Ethics, and Other Issues Raised by Digital Technologies. pp. 26, 46, 82-83, 111, 140-141, 
316-317, 385-386, 523. 		9. Advanced Web Page
Topics: Java Applets
and Cookies
4/2 29 Algorithms and Computational Complexity Analysis. pp. 549-563.
4/4 30 Data Structures and Data Abstractions.
Research Paper: Topic/Outline/Sources Due 		Chapter 9.
12 4/7 31 Operating Systems. Chapters 10, 11. 10. Finish Up the
Coffee Bean Store
4/9 32 Open-Source Systems.
Intellectual Property. 		pp. 271-272, 546;
pp. 82, 226, 366.
4/11 33 Information Management and Databases. pp. 376-395.
13 4/14 34 Database Models and Querying.
Research Paper Due 		pp. 395-401. 11. Databases
4/16 35 Exam #5  
4/18 36 Data Encryption and Data Security. pp. 469-472.
14 4/21 37 Data Communications. Chapter 15; pp. 539-540. 12. Networking
4/23 38 Networking.  
4/25 39 LANs and WANs.
Last Day to Request Final Exam Schedule Changes 		 
15 4/28 40 Internetworking.   No Lab
This Week
4/30 41 Artificial Intelligence. Chapter 13.