56-110: Introduction to Computer Science
Fall 2006

In this page:

Software, Announcements, etc.

2006-10-05 Homework, Exam 1 grades (preliminary):
2006-10-05 Text files for Excel activity:
2006-11-06 Final Exam schedule:
  • Section 4, 8am: Friday, Dec. 15, 8am.
  • Section 5, 12:30pm: Tuesday, Dec. 12, 8am.
Full final exam schedule is available here.
2006-11-14 2 Homeworks, Exam 2 grades:
2006-12-07 3 Homeworks, Exam 3 grades:

Class Slide Presentations

· Disks, Files, Directories, Folders, and Windows
Slides from the first two weeks of class (posted 2006-09-06).
·  Basics of Networking
Chapter 3. Social impact, kinds of communication, Protocols, LANs vs. WANs, URLs and the Web, directory structures (posted 2006-09-14).
·  HTML Basics:
Chapter 4. One overview of the elements of a webpage (posted 2006-09-26).
·  Locating Information on the WWW
Chapter 5. Web searches, hierarchical information structuring (posted 2006-10-17).
·  Bits and Bytes: Representing Information in a Computer
·  Bits and Bytes: Representing Information in a Computer  (alternative rendering of slides)
Chapter 8. Symbols and encodings used in a computer (posted 2006-10-11).
·  Computer Hardware Principles
Chapter 9. How a computer works internally (posted 2006-10-17).
·  HTML forms, JavaScript, the if statement
Chapter 19. The programs developed in class.

References

ASCII table
Basic 7-bit ASCII codes, as seen in Exam 2.

Software

portable SciTE editor
Simple text editor with syntax coloring. Good for many languages.
a free FTP program
FileZilla is a free ftp client program that you can download and install on your own computer.