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Sections numbers in the textbook are noted as ‘§1.2’, and correspond to the 5th edition. If you have a different edition, see the table at https://liucs.net/u562 to translate the section numbers.
Wed Sep 7 Meeting 1. Introduction, and positional numbering. Read §2.1.
Mon Sep 12 Meeting 2. Binary natural numbers. Read §2.2.
Wed Sep 14 Meeting 3. Signed two’s complement numbers. Read §3.1, 3.2.
Mon Sep 19 Meeting 4. Text encodings. Read §3.3. Quiz 1.
Wed Sep 21 Meeting 5. Text compression.
Mon Sep 26 Meeting 6. Graphics encoding. Read §3.5.
Wed Sep 28 Meeting 7. Audio/video encoding. Read §3.4, 3.6. Quiz 2.
Sun Oct 2 Assignment 1 due at 23:59.
Mon Oct 3 Meeting 8. Boolean logic. Read §4.1, 4.2.
Wed Oct 5 Meeting 9. Activity about combinational circuits. Read §4.3, 4.4.
Mon Oct 10 Meeting 10. Memory and the Turing Machine model. Read §4.5, 5.1.
Tue Oct 11 Assignment 2 due at 23:59.
Wed Oct 12 Meeting 11. The von Neumann architecture and machine code. Read §5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3. Quiz 3.
Mon Oct 17 Meeting 12. Algorithms and complexity. Read §6.5, 7.1, 7.2.
Wed Oct 19 Meeting 13. Searching and sorting. Read §7.4, 7.5.
Thu Oct 20 Assignment 3 due at 23:59.
Mon Oct 24 Meeting 14. Python syntax.
Wed Oct 26 Meeting 15. Midterm exam.
Mon Oct 31 Meeting 16. Python programming.
Wed Nov 2 Meeting 17. More programming.
Sun Nov 6 Assignment 4 due at 23:59.
Mon Nov 7 Meeting 18. Other programming languages. Read §9.2, 9.3.
Wed Nov 9 Meeting 19. What is an Operating System? Read §10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4.
Mon Nov 14 Meeting 20. Introduction to Linux and the network stack. Read §15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4.
Wed Nov 16 Meeting 21. Languages and protocols of the web. Read §16.1, 16.2. Quiz 4.
Thu Nov 17 Assignment 5 due at 23:59.
Mon Nov 21 Meeting 22. The relational data model. Read §12.3.
Mon Nov 28 Meeting 23. Introduction to SQL.
Wed Nov 30 Meeting 24. Planning and searching techniques. Read §13.1, 13.2, 13.3. Quiz 5.
Sun Dec 4 Assignment 6 due at 23:59.
Mon Dec 5 Meeting 25. The Turing Test and strong AI. Read §13.4, 13.5, 13.6.
Wed Dec 7 Meeting 26. Authentication and authorization. Read §17.1, 17.2.
Mon Dec 12 Meeting 27. Cryptography. Read §17.4, 17.5. Quiz 6.
Wed Dec 14 Meeting 28. Wildcard day and wrap-up.
Sun Dec 18 Assignment 8 due at 23:59.
Mon Dec 19 Final exam for §2(PM) at 12:30 pm.
Wed Dec 21 Final exam for §1(AM) at 8 am.