CSE 12: Survey of Computer Science

CSE 12: Survey of Computer Science

Catalog description: Survey of topics in computer science, software development in Java, and web page design. Includes multimedia laboratory. No prerequisites. Cannot be taken with CSE 15, CSE 16 or Engr 1.

Objectives:
By the end of this course, you should be able to:
• Understand and converse intelligently about great ideas and issues in computer science, such as virtual machines, virtual memory, and virtual reality; what a programming langauge translator does how it works; what a modern operating system or computer network does, how it works, and how to make effective use of it; how computing affects our privacy, security, job prospects, copyrights, or ethics; the potential and limits of artificial intelligence, etc.
• Understand how software developers solve problems, well enough to analyze, design and implement solutions to simple problems, with use cases, UML and Java.
• Critique a software user interface and create a web page with Flash animation.
• Work in pairs or teams when analyzing or developing software.
• Decide whether you want to learn more about computer science in other courses.

Resources:

Syllabus for CSE 12, for fall 2005. (New!)
Blackboard site for Survey of Computing. (Submit homework here, under Assignments.)
Find course announcments and information about your assignments and grades here.

Email addresses and office hours of graduate teaching assistant and undergraduate apprentice teacher, for fall 2004. If you need tutorial help, check this out!
Web site for the textbook: The Universal Computer. Links to solutions to chapter review exercises, web links by chapters, etc.
Chapter 1 of Design First With Java, by Glenn D. Blank and Sally H. Moritz.
Knobby's World. Also on LANs and CDROMs.
Eclipse Java programming environment. A professional, open-source integrated development environment. We have included plug-ins for UML and DrJava to help novices program in Java.
WinZip. An file archiving tool, widely for compressing and uncompressing files, for faster trasfer via the web or disks.
ws_ftple. A file transfer tool, free to students for educational use.
SetupScreenhunterFree.exe. A screen capture utility that produces better quality images that Windows screen capture.
ASCII code table. (Note that this isn't a complete table.)
Shahida's handouts for lab on desiging a class diagram for the TicketMachine

Sample exams:

Answers to chapter review questions. After you've studied a chapter and tried to answer the Chapter Review questions at the end of a chapter in the textbook, The Universal Computer, you can check here for the answers.
Sample 6-weeks exam, updated with questions pertaining to Java. This will give you some idea what this exam will be like. Recommended for study!
Sample questions that might appear on a final exam.

Assignments:

#1: Chapter 1: Introducing the Universal Computer.

#2: Chapter 2: Problem solving before programming and Knobby's World

#3: Chapter 3: Programming languages and their Translators and Chapter 1 of Design First with Java

#4: Movie Ticket Machine, Java chapter 2, global issues papers

#5: Chapters 4 and 5: Software engineering and Computer architecture

#6: Chapters 6 and 7: Operatings systems and networks; Analyzing algorithms

#7: Chapter 8: User interface and web design

#8: Chapters 9 and 10: Social and ethical issues; Artificial Intelligence