Chapter
1: Introducing ... the Universal Machine
- Beginners'
Frequently Asked Questions (and answers)
- Questions and
answers about bits and bytes, floppies and formatting,
Pentiums and Windows, modems and e-mail, etc. Click and
you shall receive!
- An illustrated
timeline of people and machines
- Learn about
the history of computing by clicking on pictures along on
a timeline.
- Pioneers of
computing
- Lots of
resources about the people who pioneered computing,
maintained by J.A.N. Lee.
- ENIAC Museum
- See the ENIAC
museum online and learn about the first fully electronic
computer.
- Smithsonian
Computer History
- The
Smithsonian Museum's Computer History web page.
- Ada Lovelace's
notes about Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine
- A selection
of excerpts from the first programmer's notes
- Pioneering women in
computing
- Denise
Gurer's banquet speech at the Grace Happer Conference on
seven pioneering women
- Turing machine
- Check out
another animated Turing Machine. This Java applet lets
you run four different programs, and even write your
own programs!
- Alan Turing wiki page
- Learn more about
the man and his great ideas.
Chapter
2: Problem solving before programming
- Informed
Hackers Hall of Fame
- Here are some
famous hackers who knew where they were going. (Remember,
it's blind hacking that can get you lost in a
jungle.)
- Problem solving and
learning
- Dr. Howard
McAllister's lecture notes on the problem solving
process.
- Dartmouth Project
for teaching engineering problem solving
- An approach
to training people how to solve engineering problems.
Chapter
3: A Taste of C++
- A C++ tutorial on
the web
- Starts with
"Hello, World" and you can download
examples. Windows programming.
- Other C++ tutorials
on the web
- A list of
tutorials, FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) and
newsgroups about C++.
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- Learn more about
C++
- A link to the
Universal Machine's programming resources page.
Chapter
4: Programming and their translators
- Hello World!
- The
proverbial "Hello World!" program in a few
hundred languages, shells, etc.
- Yahoo's list of
programming languages
- Pointers to
tutorials and resources for dozens of programming
languages
- Another list of
programming languages
- More pointers
to tutorials and resources for dozens of programming
languages
- Java Home Page
- This is Sun's
Java site. Look here for official Java information and
software.
- The Scheme
Programming Language
- Scheme is a
dialect of LISP taught as the introductory language at
MIT and elsewhere.
Chapter
5: Classes: an outside look
- Abstract Data Types
- An
introduction to ADTs from an online textbook on
object-oriented programming in C++.
- Frequently asked
questions (FAQ) about classes
- Questions and
answers about classes and objects (a page from FAQs about
C++)
Chapter
6: The software development life cycle
- Software
Engineering: the Software Life Cycle
- Succinct
lecture notes on material comparable to this chapter,
from Walla Walla College.
- Spiral model
- How is the
spiral model different from class waterfall
model? Evolution and risk analysis.
Chapter
7: Structured programming with control structures
- Conditional
expressions, if-else and switch statements
- Lecture notes
for C (from which C++ inherits these control structures
as is)
- Looping structures,
while and for loops
- Lecture notes
for C (from which C++ inherits these control structures
as is)
Chapter
8: Peeling the onion: computer architecture
- CPU info center
- Links to
history and news about Central Processing Units (CPU)
- Intel's Pentium II
- Intel's
latest processor chip's floating point capability, MMX
for multimedia, bus architecture, etc.
- Supplementary
lecture on Boolean logic
- Boolean
operators, Boolean algebra, and Boolean circuits
- A Guide to Random
Access Memory
- Learn more
about how memory chips work (SIMMs, DIMMs, SDRAMs), etc.
- The RAM Guide
- Learn still
more about how RAM and memory chips.
- A Guide to Hard
Disks
- Learn more
about how HDDs work, what a cache is, and interfaces
(IDE, EIDE, SCSI).
- Cache for
Blockheads
- Learn how a
cache can speed up access to a slower device such as a
hard drive. A fun site developed by three students
(at Lehigh University).
Chapter
9: Functions and decomposition
- Functions in C
- Function
definitions, return types, parameters, in C (from which
C++ inherits functions)
- Functions in C++
- C++
enhancements to functions (prototypes, reference
parameters, default parameter values)
Chapter
10:Operating systems and networks
- Tutorials for
Windows95, WinNT, Unix, Macintosh, X-Windows, etc.
- Learn more
about "real world" operating systems.
- Tutorials for using
and creating content for the World Wide Web (WWW)
- Learn about
various web browsers and HTML (HyperText Markup
Language), Java, Javascript, etc..
- Macintosh OS
- What's Apple
doing with the Macintosh environment?
- Microsoft Windows
- As they say,
"Where do you want to go?"
- the UNIX reference
desk
- If you want
to learn about the operating system for computing
"gurus", stop here....
- Linux
- Did you know
you could install the Unix operating system on your PC,
for free?
- Big Dummy's Guide
to the Internet
- A round trip
through Global Networks, Life in Cyberspace, and
Everything...
- An Introduction to
Cryptography
- Learn more
about how how cryptography works, from Caesar to PGP (a
public key system)
- Netscape Guide to
HTML
- Resources for
style and composition of Web documents using HTML.
Chapter
11: Strings and Arrays
- Native arrays in C
or C++
- IntArrays are
nice and safe, but what's under the hood? Learn how
it's done without classes.
- ANSI string class
-
The new standard string class, of which Lstring is a subset.
(Also Standard Template
Library.)
- Another
introduction to the Standard Template Library
- Documentation
for the STL, a library of collections and algorithms
adopted for standard C++.
- Johannes Weidel's
Standard Template Library Tutorial
- Our
department recommends this tutorial and maintains a local
copy of it.
Chapter
12: Theory of Computation
- Turing's World
- A description
of Turing machines, with graphics.
- Turing machines
- Learn more
about Turing Machines. This Java applet lets you
experiment with various TM programs.
Chapter
13: Object-Oriented Software
- Abstract Data Types
- An
introduction to ADTs from an online textbook on
object-oriented programming in C++.
- OOther, an
Object-Oriented documentation & CASE Tool
- Software
downloadable free to students and educators, it creates
and draws class inheritance diagrams, etc., in Windows.
Based on Coad & Yourdon methodology.
- The Booch method:
an introduction...
- A tutorial on
a early widely used object-oriented methodology, a
precursor of UML (see below).
- Unified Modeling
Language (UML)
- A brief
description of an object-oriented methodology that has
recently become a de facto standard.
- A closer look at
UML
("UML can save your next project")
- This article
looks more closely at how to make effective use of UML in
real world software projects.
- The Object-Oriented
Page
- An annotated
list of links to information about object-oriented
software development.
-
Chapter
14: Classes: an inside look
- Implementing
classes in C++
- Tutorial on
implementing classes, public vs. private, constructors
and destructors.
- Encapsulation in
C++ classes
- Tutorial on
implementing abstract data types as classes in C++.
- Inheritance and
polymorphism in C++
- Inheritance,
polymorphism, abstract (virtual) classes, etc., C++.
Chapter
15: Social, ethical and professional issues
- Association for
Computing Machinery (ACM)
- An
international professional society for computer
scientists. Students can join!
- Automatic Teller
Machine (ATM) phobia
- Training
older people can reduce their fear of ATMs and other new
technologies.
- Communications
Decency Act - 1996
- Full text of
the Supreme Court's ruling on the Communications Decency
Act.
- Communications
Decency Act arguments
- Arguments for
and against the CDA, both in and out of court.
- Computer
Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR)
- Articles
about spam, intellectual property, "Star Wars",
computer crime, ethics, etc.
- The Privacy Pages
- Information
privacy on the Internet, encryption, civil rights, lots
of links.
- Ten Commandments of
Computer Ethics
- From the
Computer Ethics Institute
Chapters
16: Artificial Intelligence
- Kasparov vs. Deep
Blue
- IBM gets to
gloat about Deep Blue's chess victory. An
interesting multimedia site.
- An Interactive
Turing Test
- Try
interacting with a machine that seeks to pass the Turing
test.
- Chatterbots,
Tinymuds, and the Turing Test
- How to build
a program for the Loebner Prize competition.
- Chat live with an
AI natural language program
- Talk with
"Alice" or a simulated dragon, or about AIDS,
epilepsy or career management.
- Talk live with a
program that claims to be HAL, or download one that
claims to learn.
- HAL was a
computer that originally appeared in 2001: A Space
Odyssey; is he on the web now?
- Lecture notes on
neural networks
- Kevin
Gurney's notes, the basis for his book introducing the
topic.
- Mars Rovers
- Prototype
precursors of NASA's Mars Pathfinder and Rover at the MIT
Artificial Intelligence lab.
- Cog, the humanoid
robot
- Another
project of Rodney Brooks and the MIT AI lab.
- Artificial
Intelligence links
- Information
about research in AI around the world.
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