CS 130 - Fall Term 1997 Hompage

CS 130-01 Computing Concepts..................MTThF 09:10-10:10

Instructor : Brian T. Davis

bdavis@willamette.edu

CS 130 General Information

• The official course textbook is Java Gently by Judy Bishop. This textbook leaves a number of non-programming areas uncovered, which will be covered by additional references given here or in class.

• A reference text being used for this course is "Principles of Computer Architecture" By Miles Murdocca, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University. Subtitled An Integrated Approach . This is a text available free of charge via the Internet. One copy will be placed on reserve at the libarary.

• The course syllabus for EECS 130.
  

• Exam # 1 : 10/6/97 : Review Document

• Exam # 2 : 11/3/97 : Review Document

• Exam # 3 : 12/8/97 : Review Document

CS 130 Laboratory / Programming Assignments

• The Laboratory Guidelines to be used for all lab and programming assignments in CS130 Section 1.

• The Lab # 1 assignment in the Acrobat format, which contains the deliverables for section 1, or the HTML version for the other section of this course which has lab section on Thursday. Be careful if examining the HTML version as the assignments are typically similar, but never EXACTLY the same.

  A Page describing the grading criterion for this assignment.

• The Lab # 2 assignment in the HTML format. This is a complex two week lab, due Sept 30th. It can be done in groups of two students.

  A Page describing the grading criterion for this assignment.

• The Lab # 3 assignment in the HTML format. This is a HTML homepage creation lab, and is to completed independantly by each student.

• The Lab # 4 assignment in the HTML format. This is a HTML homepage creation lab, and is to completed independantly by each student.

• The Lab # 5 assignment in the PDF format.

• The Lab # 6 assignment in HTML format. This lab was posted on 11/3/97, will be assigned on 11/6/97 and will be due on 11/13/97.

• The Lab # 7 assignment in PDF format. This lab was posted on 11/10/97, will be assigned on 11/11/97 and will be due on 11/18/97.

• The Lab # 8 assignment in HTML format. This lab was posted on 11/18/97, will be assigned on 11/18/97 and will be due on 11/25/97.

• The Lab # 9 assignment in HTML format. This lab was posted on 11/24/97, will be assigned on 11/25/97 and will be due on 12/2/97.

Code Archive

CS 130 Homework Assignments

• The first homework assignment on Computing History, Data representation & Binary arithmetic was assigned on 9/12/97 and will be due at the start of class on 9/19/97.

• The second homework assignment from the Java Gently textbook was assigned on 11/13/97 and will be due at the start of class on 11/20/97.

Web pages of Interest
(i.e. Reading Assignments for course)

• A Brief History of Computer Science Written by a professor at the University of Waterloo in Canada.

• A HTML-text on An Overview Of Computational Science Written by the Computational Science Education Project.

• A Graph of the growth of Internet Hosts

• The homepage for the Unicode Standards Organization which contains information on the Unicode character set available in JAVA.

• A mapping tool showwing the Internet Backbones which are the primary data carriers of the internet.

• Yahoo's index of Beginners Guides for HTML

• Yahoo's index of Any or All Guides for HTML

• A tutorial on JAVA placed on the web and hosted by SUN microsystems.

Similar Courses Elsewhere

• A Cool (but not so similar) course on uses of technology in our daily life, SCEN 167 at University of Deleware . Which is taught by the Physics Department.