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Intro to Computing | | | | Summary
Lecture notes of a course designed to develop an appreciation of various aspects of computing, generate interest through Web page development, and introduce essential productivity software packages. Topics include: evolution of computing; hardware; software development; algorithms; Internet; World Wide Web. The student also learnt how to develop interactive Web pages in HTML and JavaScript. | | |
| | | | I have taught this Intro to Computing course to freshmen at at three different universities - it was quite popular at the first two, and then ... . Classroom recordings of its first offering were used for a professor-free, PC-based offering - probably the first experiment of its kind in Pakistan. Its second offering was for a distance-learning TV audience and has been broadcasted at least seven times in its entirety to most corners of the world over terrestrial and satellite channels. The video recordings (on CDs and VHS) of the 45 lectures can be ordered from here. Those recordings and the PowerPoint slides available on this page were prepared in early 2002. Textbooks | UC -
| Understanding Computers 2000: Today & Tomorrow, 2000 Edition (Charles Parker. Harcourt. December 1999.) | | JS - | Learn JavaScript in a Weekend (Jerry Lee Ford, Jr. Prima Tech. March 2001.) | PowerPoint Slides, Reading Material and Assignment Schedule |
NOTE: Homework is assigned in lectures marked by an asterisk (*) | | | |
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