Introduction to Computer Science: Course Overview and Administrative Details, Slides of Computer Fundamentals

Download Introduction to Computer Science: Course Overview and Administrative Details and more Slides Computer Fundamentals in PDF only on Docsity!  What is this Course About ?  Objective of the course and outline  Administrative Details  What are computers ?  Type of Computers docsity.com  Its about knowing computers  Programming them.  No prior knowledge of programming docsity.com Introduction to Programming  Programming Languages  Problems solving Techniques  Data Types  Basics of C  Control structures  Functions Arrays &Strings Pointers Part B docsity.com  Office: ◦ HPC Lab  Email: ◦ mohsan.jameel@seecs.edu.pk  Teaching Assistant: ◦ Fahad Ahmed Satti ◦ fahad.satti@gmail.com  Counseling hours ◦ Monday (13:20 to 14:10) BEE-2B ◦ Monday (14:20 to 13:10) BEE-2A ◦ Appointment by email docsity.com Quizzes 10 % One Hour Tests: 30 % Lab and Assignments: 10% Project: 10 % End Semester Exam: 40% docsity.com  Text Books ◦ Peter Norton’s Introduction to Computers 6th Edition ◦ Object Oriented Programming in C ++ by Robert Lafore (4th edition) docsity.com  Reference Books ◦ Using Information Technology by Brian K. Williams and Stacy C. Sawyer (6th Edition) ◦ Computers by Larry Long, Nancy Long 6th Edition ◦ Computer Fundamentals by P.K. Sinha ◦ Concepts by Parson Oja ◦ Introduction to computes and information systems by Robert A., Donald P., Norma A., donna M. (2nd Edition) ◦ C++ How To Program by Dietel&Dietel (3rd Edition) ◦ C++ Web material ◦ www.howstuffworks.com ◦ www.whatis.com docsity.com  What is this Course About ?  Objective of the course and outline  Administrative Details  What is computer ?  Type of Computers docsity.com Analytical Engine eer | | were rir rr apap . | = awit ENA TT docsity.com  First fully automatic calculating machine  Designed by Howard A. Aiken of Harvard University in collaboration with IBM. docsity.com  The ENIAC ◦ Electronic numerical integrator and Calculator was constructed at the Moore School of Engineering  The EDVAC ◦ Dr John Von Neumann introduce stored “program concept”.  The EDSAC ◦ Britishers version of EDVAC  The UNIVAC ◦ Universal Automatic Computer ◦ Used for commercial purposes docsity.com  Cray XT5 supercomputer known as Jaguar  Located at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Lab, Leadership Computing Facility  1.75 petaflops performance speed (Linpack benchmark)  Nearly a quarter of a million cores  One petaflop refers to one quadrillion (1015) calculations per second.  Secure energy future, global climate change, Boeing –test aircraft designs docsity.com docsity.com  China has 2nd fastest supercomputer ◦ Nebulae @ National Super Computer Center ◦ Theoretically it’s the fastest supercomputer with 3.00 petaflops docsity.com  Expensive, powerful computers usually used for complex scientific, mathematical, and engineering calculations and for computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing.  e.g. Sun blade 2500 Sun Microsystems workstation docsity.com  Class of multi-user computers that lies in between mainframe computers (multi user) and microcomputers or personal computers (single user)  Midrange computer, such as the higher-end SPARC, POWER and Itanium -based systems from Sun Microsystems, IBM and Hewlett- Packard. docsity.com Computers for individuals - PCs ¢ Microcomputers — Workstation — Desktop computers — Notebook computers — Tablet computers — Handheld compute — Smart phones ] — Microcontroller a “ NS - & Tablet BC 3 docsity.com  A smartphone is a mobile phone that offers more advanced computing ability and connectivity than a contemporary basic feature phone  Thought of as handle-held computers integrated within a mobile telephone  Allow user to install more advance feature applications docsity.com Thanks you docsity.com  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer  Chapter 1, Introduction to Computer, Peter Norton.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_com puter  http://www.top500.org/ docsity.com