Transcript CSC 200 - PDC Faculty

CSC 200
Lecture 0 – An Overview
Length: 40:23
Resources for the Course
• College Home Page
– www.pc.vccs.edu
• Instructor Home Page
– www.pc.vccs.edu/tureman
• Blackboard/Email Resources
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At the College Web Site, choose ONLINE SERVICES
Click on MY PDCCC
Enter your ID and PASSWORD
If you are new, click on the link to find your ID and set
your password
The Course Outline
• Found on the Blackboard site
• Has a schedule of content
• You should read and follow this outline
The CSC 200 Course
• Breadth First Approach
– Many topics at a high level
• Includes number conversion content
• Includes some programming topics
• Includes operating system, network and
Internet topics
Our Materials
• Our text is Computer Science Illuminated by
Dale and Lewis
• We no longer use the Brookshear book
mentioned on the tape, but you may want to
get a copy as reference
• A flash drive for storage
• Headphones for Internet content
Parts of the Study
• Terminology
– Speed, size, hardware, software, more
• Devices
– Flash drive, MP3 players, USB
• Details of how computing devices work
• For online students, any lab content we talk
about on the tapes can be set up for you in
the research lab. Contact the instructor for
details.
Parts of the Study (Continued)
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Binary Numbers
Gates (AND, OR, NOT)
Fundamental Algorithms
Software Development
Data Organization
Computation
Tools of the Information Age
– Browser, Productivity, Programming
• Ethics and Careers
Visit the ACM Site
• Association for Computing Machinery
• Professional Organization for Computer
Scientists
• www.acm.org
General Notes
• The best way to contact the instructor is by
email: [email protected]
• Office phone has voice mail – 925-6329
• Where I talk about the outline, please consult
your outline from the Blackboard site as some
of those elements may have been changed.
• Keep your schedule book – it contains the
semester calendar and exam schedule