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CS & IT Revolution: Fundamental Concepts and Applications for Beginners

Explore key ideas in CS & IT revolution with examples from various disciplines. Develop an IT-enabled mindset and learn how to leverage IT knowledge. This course covers basic IT skills, abstraction levels, decomposition, iteration, and more. Participate in tutorials, projects, quizzes, and a final exam. Embrace the fun side with jokes, web page design, UIT2201 module blog, and engaging projects like Google Maps and Alice. No programming background required!

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CS & IT Revolution: Fundamental Concepts and Applications for Beginners

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  1. UIT2201: CS & IT Revolution • Course Web-Site: (Spring 2009) • http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~leonghw/uit2201/Sp2009/ • Lecturer: A/P Leong Hon Wai • Email, MSN, FB: leonghw@comp.nus.edu.sg • Homepage: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~leonghw/ • Contact: • Office: COM1, 04-31 • Tel: 6516-2903 • Dept of Computer Science, SOC • Consultation: • Office Hours: TBA (& by email-appt)

  2. UIT2201: CS & IT Revolution • What this course is NOT • Not a Practice-Oriented Course • Not to teach programming • Not to train a computer scientist/engineer • Not an IT literacy course • Not to teach IT/computer skills • Each faculty has its own already IT literacy course • YES, it’s TRUE. • You do NOT need background in computing. • However, you need to have • Open, Logical mind; Keen to learn • Basic IT skills (word processing) • Internet surfing, web-search, email, etc

  3. UIT2201: CS & IT Revolution • What this course is about • Learn about fundamental ideas in CS & IT • Learn what drives CS & IT revolution • Not in great depth, but the key ideas… • With lots of examples and analogies • from anywhere and everywhere • From different discuplines • Textbook, Internet, newspapers, • Magazines, Journals, bus/MRT, anywhere • To view things from the CS&IT angle

  4. UIT2201: CS & IT Revolution • Learn how to leverage on IT • What’s possible, what’s not. • Develop an “IT-enabled mindset” • Be able to apply IT knowledge • Singapore Examples: • NLB Success Story • More recent eg: MOH • “If you know what is possible, • you can always find the people to do it.”

  5. UIT2201: CS & IT Revolution • Textbook: • Invitation to Computer Science, Java Version, (3rd edition), 2007G. Michael Schneider & Judith L. Gersting • Chapter covered: (roughly) • Chapters 1-5, 7, 11, 13-15 • Lecture Materials: • Powerpoint files • Related reading materials on course-site • Assigned reading materials (not so much)

  6. UIT2201: Other fun things… • Good jokes, fun jokes… • Designing your own web-pages… • It’s easy and FUN! • Contributing to UIT2201 module-blog • Hear what the instructor say… • And also have your own say… • Fun Project: (some past ones…) • Fun with Google Maps and Mashups • 3D animated story board with Alice • Origami (is that related to IT?)

  7. Figure 1.9 Organization of the Text into a Six-Layer Hierarchy

  8. UIT2201: CS & IT Revolution • Assessment: • Participation: 5% • Tutorials: 20% (about 10 sets) • Project: 15% • Quizzes: 15%+15% (closed book) • Final Exam: 30% (OPEN BOOK) 30-April (Wed) PM • Dates for Quizzes: (closed books) • 06-Mar-09 (Fri) 7-8pm Quiz 1 (tentative) • 10-Apr-09 (Fri) 7-8pm Quiz 2 (tentative)

  9. UIT2201: CS & IT Revolution COURSE OUTLINE • Introduction to CS & IT Revolution (2L) • Algorithms (6L) • Database (2L) • Hardware (4L) • Network / Internet / WWW (2L) • Artificial Intelligence (2L) • Theory (2L) • e-Commerce, Security (2L) • Computers and Society (1L) • Past, Present and Future Trends (1L)

  10. Some Underlying Principles Recurring principles (themes) in CS & IT. They pop-up in multiple places… • Multiple Levels of Abstraction • from very high level to very low level • Divide and Conquer • also called “Decomposition” • One data, multiple views • Different “interfaces” • Defining set of primitives (building blocks) • Or basic-operations, mini langugages • Power of Iteration • doing something multiple times

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