Class attributes: Math/Science/Technology Essential Studies requirement for information literacy

Lecture notes: No textbook will be used. Instead, award-winning, interactive, informative, and practical lecture notes (based on books, papers, online documents, and user manuals) and detailed and precise class instructions will be provided. Collectively, the lecture notes and instructions are more like a small book, which supplies much more information than regular notes do and makes the subject studies much easier. Students will not have problem learning the subjects or taking the exams after studying them and doing programming exercises.

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Grading: Grade information Programming exercises (not counted, for practice only)

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Announcements:

• Updated constantly: Class notes


• Wednesday, November 20: Exam II to be held during the class time
• Sunday, November 10: Exam II rules and question distribution posted
• Wednesday, October 09: Exam I to be held during the class time
• Sunday, September 29: Exam I rules and question distribution posted
• Monday, August 26: Register this course via Course Registration.

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Tentative Schedule:

Week	Class	Topic	Due	Where
0		0. Computer Career and Data Research & Technologies
		0.1 A computer career
		0.2 Data research
		0.3 Data technologies
1	08/28 08/30	1. Introduction to CSCI 101
		1.1 Course outline
		1.2 Tentative schedule
		1.3 Topics to be covered
2	09/04 09/06	2. A Computer History
		2.1 Historical perspective
		2.2 Personal computers
		2.3 Smartphones
	09/04	Last day to add a course or drop without record — 100% refund  Last day to add audit or change to/from audit  Last day to receive a refund on a dropped class  Drops after the last day to add will appear on a transcript.
	09/02	Holiday, Labor Day (Monday) — no classes
3	09/09 09/11 09/13	3. Operating Systems (OSs)
		3.1 OS architecture
		3.2 OS process management
		3.3 OS memory management
4	09/16 09/18 09/20	4. The World Wide Web (WWW)
		4.1 Introduction to the WWW
		4.2 Hosting a website
		4.3 A website architecture
5	09/23 09/25 09/27	5. Building Websites
		5.1 Technologies for website building
		5.2 World Wide Web programming
		5.3 Top tools for website development
6	09/30 10/02 10/04	6. HTML (HyperText Markup Language)
		6.1 Introduction to HTML
		6.2 HTML tags
		6.3 HTML syntax
7	10/07 10/11	7. HTML (Cont.)
		7.1 HTML forms and input
		7.2 HTML frames and iframes
		7.3 HTML5
	10/09	Exam I (10:10am – 11:00am, Wednesday)
8	10/14 10/16 10/18	8. CSS (Cascading Style Sheet)
		8.1 Introduction to CSS
		8.2 CSS basics
		8.3 CSS syntax
09	10/21 10/23 10/25	9. Programming Languages
		9.1 Language generations
		9.2 Language survey
		9.3 Language processing
10	10/28 10/30 11/01	10. Data Structures and Algorithms
		10.1 Introduction
		10.2 Data Structures
		10.3 Algorithms
11	11/04 11/06 11/08	11. Data Storage and Databases
		11.1 Introduction to databases
		11.2 Relational databases
		11.3 SQL (Structured Query Language)
12	11/13 11/15	12. Computer Architecture
		12.1 Under the covers
		12.2 Computer mice and monitors
		12.3 Processor technologies
	11/15	Last day to change to or from S/U grading  Last day to change to or from audit grading  Last day to drop a full-term course or withdraw from school
	11/11	Holiday, Veteran’s Day (Monday) — no classes
13	11/18 11/22	13. Computer Architecture (Cont.)
		13.1 Memory technologies
		13.2 Computer networks
		13.3 Chip manufacturing process
	11/20	Exam II (10:10am – 11:00am, Wednesday)
14	11/25	14. Smartphones
		14.1 Smartphone structure
		14.2 Smartphone components
		14.3 Smartphone market share
	11/27 11/28 11/29	Holidays, Thanksgiving Break (WeThFr) — no classes
15	12/02 12/04 12/06	15. Smartphones (Cont.)
		15.1 Mobile operating systems
		15.2 Mobile processors
		15.3 Memory
16	12/09 12/11	16. Smartphones (Cont.)
		16.1 Batteries
		16.2 Mobile networks
		16.3 Mobile payment methods
17	12/18	Final exam (10:15am – 12:15pm, Wednesday)
18	12/24	Grades posted before noon, Tuesday