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James Tam
Introduction to CPSC 203
James Tam
James Tam
Administrative
Contact Information
• Office: ICT 707
• Phone: 210-9455
• Email: [email protected]
Office hours
• Office hours: MW 12:00 - 13:00
• Email: [email protected] (any time)
• Appointment: phone or call
• Drop by for urgent requests (but no guarantee that I will be in!)
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Feedback
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Organization of this course
Lectures
•Theory, concepts (how do things work)?
•Exam-related material (some assignment stuff)
Labs
•Practical (e.g., How do I do I use a computer to do something?)
•Assignment-related material
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How you will be evaluatedAssignments (30%)
• Email (1%)
• Word Processing (4%)
• Spreadsheet (4%)
• Database (6%)
• Internet (5%)
• Project (7%)
• PowerPoint (3%)
Exams (70%)
• Midterm exam (30%)
• Final exam (40%)
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Course resources
Course website: http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~tamj/2002/203
Course textbooks:
• Computer Confluence, 4th Edition, George Beekman, Prentice Hall
• Projects for Microsoft Office, Toliver, Johnson and Koneman, Addison Wesley
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Course outline
1) Introduction to computers
• Today’s material and much more!
2) Number systems
• More than just decimal
3) History of computers
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Course outline (continued)4) Networking and telecommunications
5) Introduction to Computer Science
• Simulations
• Graphics
• Databases
• Artificial Intelligence
• Computer vision
• Human-Computer Interaction
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Course outline (continued)
6) Computer programming
• What’s involved in the creation of a computer program.
7) Issues in computing
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What is a computer?
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High-level view of a computer
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Why use a computer?
Calculations
• Fast, accurate
Repetition
• Don’t get bored
Storage and retrieval of information
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Categories of computers
Supercomputers
Mainframes
Personal computers
Portable computers
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Supercomputers
What are they?
What are they used for?
Example applications
• Medical research
• Science
• Government
• Telecommunications
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Mainframes
One main computer with many secondary computers attached.
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Mainframes (continued)
Expensive and big
Need special environments
Used when reliability is important
• Banks
• Airline reservations
• Web servers
• The U of C!
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Personal computers (desktops)
The most commonly found type of computer
• Windows, Apple, Sun, Amiga…
For one person at a time
Inexpensive (but quite powerful)
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Portable computers
Notebooks (laptops)
• Portable form of a desktop
• Pay more, get less
• Battery powered
Hand helds (palmtops, PDAs)
• More portable, less powerful