CSC 111-01       Intro to Computers and Visual BASIC      Spring ‘08

Syllabus

Week 1 – 2     Intro to computers, binary arithmetic, directories, files, compilers and interpreters. Readings: 

http://scholar.hw.ac.uk/site/computing/topic15.asp?outline=

http://www.freesoft.org/CIE/Topics/19.htm

http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/echeeve1/Ref/BinaryMath/BinaryMath.html

http://www2.cs.uregina.ca/~rbm/cs100/notes/binary/binary.html

http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/electricCircuits/Digital/DIGI_2.html

http://cs.furman.edu/digitaldomain/more/binary/bin3.html

Week 3           Visual BASIC development environment. Readings: Chap. 1 – 2.

Week 4           Introductory graphics. Readings: Chap. 3.

Week 5           Variables and calculations. Readings: Chap. 4.

Double (IEEE-754 1985 Standard)

http://www.artima.com/underthehood/floating.html

http://polimage.polito.it/CodeSimulink/help/CodeSimulink/IEEE%20Standard%20754%20Floating-Point.htm

Week 6 – 7     Methods and arguments.  Readings: Chap. 5.

TEST 1  March 13, 2008       Covers all material up to (and including) Chap. 4. 

Week 8           Using objects & Conditions and selections. Readings: Chap. 6 - 7.

Week 9 -11     Loops. Readings: Chap. 8.

TEST 2  April 17, 2008          Covers Chap. 5 thru 8.

Week 12         Writing classes. Readings: Chap. 10.

Week 13         Calculations. Readings: Chap. 12.

Week 14         Arrays. Readings: Chap. 14 - 15.

Week 15         Strings. Readings: Chap. 16.

FINAL  May 20, 2008           Comprehensive (covers all material)

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