COMP 101: Intro. to Computers & Computing



What is computer science?


Week Monday Friday
1 What is CS?
What is Computing?
  What is the CPU?
CS History: Concepts to Implementation
2 Representing Data   Representing Programs
3 Logic   Circuits
4 Arithmetic via Logic   Catch-up
5 Higher-Level Programming   CS History:
Mainframes to PCs
6 Algorithm Analysis   Sorting Comparisons
7 Hard Problems, Complexity   Automata
8 The Internet & the Web   Social/Ethical Issues
9 Human-Computer Interaction   Artificial Intelligence
10 Presentations   Wrap-Up