CSE 12: Introduction to Computing

Professor: Glenn David Blank Phone: 758-4867 E-mail: "glenn dot blank at lehigh dot edu"
Hours: TTh 3:10-4PM, WF 2:10-3PM Office: 328 Packard Lab http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~glennb

Prerequisites: none (that=s right, none!)
Textbooks: Glenn D. Blank, Robert F. Barnes and Edwin J. Kay, The Universal Computer:
A Multimedia Introduction to Computer Science (McGraw-Hill/Primis, 2003), UC

David Barnes and Michael Kölling, Objects First With Java (first two chapters), Java

Requirements:

Homework/programming assignments: 40%
6-weeks & final exam: 15% and 35%

Class attendance, quizzes and participation (lectures and labs):  10%

Syllabus:

Date     Topic   Reading; assignments (tentative due dates)

M 8/25 Objectives; introducing the universal computer; misconceptions

W 8/27 Turing machines, virtual machines Read UC chapter 1

Fr 8/29 Bits and bytes

M 9/1 Problem solving; Knobby’s World #1 due 9/1 (UC 1)

W 9/3 Problem solving strategies and algorithm development Read UC chapter 2

F 9/5 Knobby's World programming

M 9/8 Programming languages and their translators #2 due 9/8 (UC 2)

W 9/10 Syntax and structures of languages Read UC chapter 3

Fr 9/12 Interpreters and compilers

M 9/15 Java objects and classes in BlueJ #3 due 9/15 (UC 3)

W 9/17 Objects and classes Read Java, chapter 1

Fr 9/19 Understanding classes Read Java, chapter 2

M 9/22 Pair programming in Java #4 due 9/22 (Java 1&2)

W 9/24 Abstract data types (and review for exam)

F 9/26 6-weeks exam in class (UC 1-3, Java 1-2)

M 9/29 Software engineering Read UC chapter 4

W 10/1 Waterfall life cycle

F 10/3 Alternative life cycles

M 10/6 Peeling the onion: computer architecture Read UC chapter 5

W 10/8 Register machines and other processors

Fr 10/10 Pacing break

M 10/13 No class (Friday classes meet)

W 10/15 Boolean circuits #5 due 10/15 (UC 4 and 5)

F 10/17 From batch to multitasking operating systems Read UC chapter 6, sections 1-3

M 10/20 Operating systems, networks and security

W 10/22 How the Internet works Read UC chapter 6, section 4

F 10/24 How a secure login works; encryption; viruses Read UC chapter 6, section 5

M 10/27 Algorithms; discovering emerging trends with the web #6 due 10/27 (UC 6)

W 10/29 Searching & sorting Read UC chapter 7, section 1

F 10/31 Recursive algorithms Read UC chapter 7, section 2

M 11/3 Usability and user interface design (and review for exam) Read UC chapter 8, section 1

W 11/5 Efficiency of algorithms Read UC chapter 7, section 3

F 11/7 HTML Read UC chapter 8, section 2.1

M 11/10 HTML and web site design #7 due 11/10 (UC 7,8.1-8.2.1)

W 11/12 Graphical images

F 11/14 Flash animation Read UC chapter 8, section 2.4

M 11/17 Flash and dynamic web design

W 11/19 Flash Actionscript Read UC chapter 8, section 2.5

F 11/21 JavaScript and Dynamic HTML Read UC chapter 8, section 2.3

M 11/24 Social and ethical issues

W 11/26 Computing, society and professional issues UC chapter 9

12/1 Artificial Intelligence UC chapter 10

12/3 AI

12/5 Wrap-up and review #8 due 12/5 (UC 8-10)