The following are the slides used in the lectures for this class. These slides cover material not available in the textbook. Note that you are responsible for all the material covered in the lectures and assigned in the textbook readings.

Lecture Slides:

• Lecture 01: Computer Taxonomies and Generations
• Lecture 02: Computer Hardware and Structure
• Lecture 03: Computer Software and Firmware
• Lecture 04: A Tour of the Unix OS and File System
• Lecture 05: Email Management
• Lecture 06: Internet Client/Server Applications and Protocols
• Lecture 07: Creating Web Pages using HTML
• Lecture 08: From Algorithms to Programs
• Lecture 09: From Algorithms to Programs
• Lecture 10: Time Complexity of Algorithms
• Lecture 11: Programming Conclusion and a Tour Through Unix Commands
• Lecture 12: Calculation, Visualization, and Simulation
• Lecture 13: The Binary Number System
• Lecture 14-15: From Transistors to Gates
• Lecture 16-17: From Gates to Adder Circuits

Created on: 1997.01.12
Updated on: 1997.10.28
Maintainer: Azer Bestavros
            best@cs.bu.edu