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

Synchronous class delivery: The class lectures will be delivered synchronously via https://und.zoom.us/j/2489867333, and the Zoom video will be posted on the Blackboard afterwards. Students can watch the video clips anytime they want.

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 Exam guidelines Programming exercises (not counted, for practice only)

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Announcements:

• Updated constantly: Class notes


• Monday, January 13: 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	01/15 01/17	1. Introduction to CSCI 101
		1.1 Course outline
		1.2 Tentative schedule
		1.3 Topics to be covered
2	01/22 01/24	2. A Computer History
		2.1 Historical perspective
		2.2 Personal computers
		2.3 Smartphones
	01/23	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.
	01/20	Holiday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day (Monday) — no classes
3	01/27 01/29 01/31	3. Operating Systems (OSs)
		3.1 OS architecture
		3.2 OS process management
		3.3 OS memory management
4	02/03 02/05 02/07	4. The World Wide Web (WWW)
		4.1 Introduction to the WWW
		4.2 Hosting a website
		4.3 A website architecture
5	02/10 02/12 02/14	5. Building Websites
		5.1 Technologies for website building
		5.2 World Wide Web programming
		5.3 Top tools for website development
6	02/19 02/21	6. HTML (HyperText Markup Language)
		6.1 Introduction to HTML
		6.2 HTML tags
		6.3 HTML syntax
	02/17	Holiday, President’s Day (Monday) — no classes
7	02/24 02/28	7. HTML (Cont.)
		7.1 HTML forms and input
		7.2 HTML frames and iframes
		7.3 HTML5
	02/26	Exam I (for both on-campus and on-line students; 06:30pm – 07:30pm, Wednesday)
8	03/03 03/05 03/07	8. CSS (Cascading Style Sheet)
		8.1 Introduction to CSS
		8.2 CSS basics
		8.3 CSS syntax
9	03/10 – 03/14	Spring Break — no classes
10	03/17 03/19 03/21	10. Programming Languages
		10.1 Language generations
		10.2 Language survey
		10.3 Language processing
11	03/24 03/26 03/28	11. Data Structures and Algorithms
		11.1 Introduction
		11.2 Data Structures
		11.3 Algorithms
12	03/31 04/02 04/04	12. Databases and SQL
		12.1 Introduction to databases
		12.2 Relational databases
		12.3 SQL (Structured Query Language)
13	04/07 04/09 04/11	13. Computer Architecture
		13.1 Under the covers
		13.2 Computer mice and monitors
		13.3 Processor technologies
	04/11	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
14	04/14	14. Computer Architecture (Cont.)
		14.1 Memory technologies
		14.2 Computer networks
		14.3 Chip manufacturing process
	04/18	Holiday, Good Friday — no classes
	04/16	Exam II (for both on-campus and on-line students; 6:30pm – 7:30pm, Wednesday)
15	04/23 04/25	15. Smartphones
		15.1 Smartphone structure
		15.2 Smartphone components
		15.3 Smartphone market share
	04/21	Holidays, Easter (Monday) — no classes
16	04/28 04/30 05/02	16. Smartphones (Cont.)
		16.1 Mobile operating systems
		16.2 Mobile processors
		16.3 Memory
17	05/05 05/07	17. Smartphones (Cont.)
		17.1 Batteries
		17.2 Mobile networks
		17.3 Mobile payment methods
18	05/14	Final exam (for both on-campus and on-line students; 6:30pm – 8:30pm, Wednesday)
19	05/20	Grades posted before noon, Tuesday