Fall Term, 2004
An unofficial summary of final grades is now available.
This document was last modified on Monday, 16-Apr-2007 20:41:47 MDT
Course
Description and Regulations
Instructor Office Hours and Contact Information
Percentage to Alpha Conversion Chart
Expectations
regarding Attendance and Course Work
(in reverse chronological order)
Assignment 10 -- Programming in Bare Bones (due December 8)
Assignment 9 -- Arrays in Java
(due December 1) [Note revised due date.]
Assignment 8 -- Procedures in Java
(due November 17)
Assignment 7 -- Programming in Java
(due November 10)
Assignment 6 -- Creating a Web Page in HTML
(due November 3)
Assignment 5 -- Sorting in Assembly Language using SimpSim
(due October 26) [Note revised due date.]
Assignment 4 -- Arithmetic in Assembly Language using SimpSim
(due October 15)
Assignment 3 -- Arithmetic Circuits using Logisim
(due October 6)
Assignment 2 -- Gates and Circuits using Logisim
(due September 29)
Assignment 1 -- Researching the History of Computing
(due September 22)
Your assignment submissions are password-protected. These passwords apply only to form data submitted via the Web server. They are separate from (and typically different from) your Augustana network password or the password for your Unix account (if you have one).
A series of PowerPoint presentations is available, one per chapter, as prepared by the textbook author. You may need to shift-click these links to download them to your machine for viewing. A PowerPoint viewer is available for free download from Microsoft.
Artificial Intelligence
[large
print]
Intelligence and the Turing Test
[large
print]
Logisim by Carl Burch, available for free download.
(You will need Java installed on your computer.)
Simple Simulator for ICT (the machine language proposed
by Brookshear in Computer Science: An Overview) by
Anne-Gert Bultena, available for free download.
Summary of SimpSim Assembly Language
BareBones Interpreter by Mike Huffman [with corrections by J. Mohr]
Summaries of all five videos in the series, with links
to other sources, by J.A.N. Lee and studentsGiant Brains
Summary by Tony Drewry
Inventing the Future
Summary by Tony Drewry
The Thinking Machine
Summary by Tony Drewry
The Computer Museum History Center
Some History of Computing, etc. Links by Tony
Drewry
SiteAid HTML editor --
shareware or
freeware version
Getting started with HTML by Dave Raggett
Advanced HTML by Dave Raggett
Introduction To HTML and URLs by Ian Graham (Univ.
of Toronto), author of HTML 4.0 Sourcebook
Composing Good HTML by Eric Tilton, an author of
Web Weaving
Standard Color Names and RGB Numbers
Introduction to XML by Lars Marius Garshol
Java documentation - Java™ 2 Platform, Standard Edition, v 1.4.2, API Specification
Introduction to Programming Using Java by David J. Eck,
a free, on-line textbook on introductory programming using Java
(also available for download
in PDF format).
Java Supplement (in PDF format) from The
Science of Computing Suite
Thinking in Java, 3e, by Bruce Eckel, a free electronic
book
Copyright Law in Canada by Philip B. Kerr
Fair Dealing from a University of Manitoba on-line
brochure
10 Big Myths about copyright explained by Brad Templeton (founder of
ClariNet, chairman of the board of the Electronic Frontier
Foundation, and moderator of the Usenet group rec.humor.funny)
Intellectual Property by Donald H. MacOdrum -- some
cases based on Canadian copyright law
Get Ready for an Encore of the Napster Controversy
(Chronicle of Higher Education, 2000 Sept 8)
A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public-Key Cryptosystems
by Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman [the RSA paper]
Going Farther: RSA, Chapter 9 from
Discovering Number Theory by Jeffrey J. Holt and John W. Jones
(W.H. Freeman, 2001)
Visual Automata Simulator by Jean Bovet, a graduate student
in the CS Department of the University of San Francisco
This simulator is written in Java, and the following components are available:
Generic Jar file [ZIP archive]
Binary for MacOS X [ZIP archive]
Java source code [ZIP archive]
Turing Machine Simulator by Suzanne (Skinner) Britton
(Ottawa, Ontario)
Turing's World, a book-simulator combination
Busy Beaver Turing Machine by Michael Somos --
information about a non-computable function other than the halting
problem
A Turing Machine Simulator (in C) by Wendy Myrvold
(University of Victoria, B.C.)
Another Turing Machine Simulator (Java application) by
Eileen Head (Binghamton U., NY)
HAL's Legacy -- the entire book about HAL,
the intelligent computer from the movie 2001: A Space
Odyssey (Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick, 1968), available
online
The Turing Game -- From their 'Information' page:
Do men and women behave differently online? Can you tell who is a man and who is a woman on the Internet based on how they interact with others? Can you tell how old someone is, or determine their race or national origin? . . . The Turing Game is a participatory collaborative learning experience to help us understand these phenomena.
Collection of Software Bugs by Prof. Thomas Huckle
(Institut für Informatik, TU München)
The Therac-25 Accidents by Dr. Nancy Leveson and
Clark S. Turner (originally published in IEEE Computer, Vol. 26,
No. 7, July 1993, pp. 18-41.).
See also Therac-25 Incident Notes, a set of slides in
GIF format
ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional
Practice
Identity Theft (U.S. Federal Trade Commission)
