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Tentative Lecture Schedule CS100: The World of Computing -- Haverford College -- Spring 2008 -- John Dougherty
L#	Date	Topic	AE	LoC	Alice	Due
1	1/23	General Course Overview	1.1	-	-	-
2	1/25	History of Computer Science: Giant Brains (video)	1.2 - 1.4	10	-	-
3	1/28	Local Applications and Tools	2.1 - 2.3	-	-	-
4	1/30	Implications of Computing Technology: Skills, Productivity	2.4	-	-	-
5	2/1	Global Applications: Internet Basics	3.1 - 3.4	-	-	-
6	2/4	Global Applications: Impact of the World Wide Web	3.5 - 3.6	-	-	Lab 0
7	2/6	Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)	-	-	-	-
8	2/8	Accessibility and Universal Design in HCI	-	-	-	Quiz 1
9	2/11	GUI Evolution	3.5	-	-	-
10	2/13	Review of Modules 1 - 3, HCI	1 - 3	10	-	-
11	2/15	Examination 1	1 - 3	10	-	Exam 1
12	2/18	HTML: General Page Structure	4.1 - 4.2	-	-	-
13	2/20	HTML: Hyperlinks and Multimedia	4.3 - 4.4	-	-	-
14	2/22	HTML: Lists and Tables	4.5	-	-	-
15	2/25	HTML Forms for Input and Output	5.1 - 5.2	-	-	-
16	2/27	Algorithms and Programs; Stating Problems Effectively	-	1	-	-
17	2/29	Programming in Alice	-	-	1	Project Proposal
18	3/3	Programming: input => process => output values (.ppt)	-	2	2	-
19	3/5	Programming: built in tools (variables, functions, methods, objects, events)	-	2	3.1	Lab 1
20	3/7	Programming: algorithms; control and data structures	-	-	3.2	-
Midterm Break
21	3/17	Review of Programming so far: video TBA	-	-	-	-
22	3/19	Programming: functions and parameters; nestable control and data structures; objects	-	6	4.2	-
23	3/21	Programming: events and object-based programming	-	-	4.1, 5	-
24	3/24	Programming: list/arrays; repetition and recursion; connetcing to non-Alice languages	-	-	6-9	-
25	3/26	Program Translation: Source vs. Machine Code; interpreting vs. compiling vs. hybrid	6.1	-	-	-
26	3/28	Program Translation: (Arithmetic) Parse Trees and Syntax/Semantics	6.2	-	-	Lab 2
27	3/31	Program Translation: Phases (Scanning, Parsing, Code Generation); Programming Paradigms	6.3 - 6.4	-	-	-
28	4/2	HTML, Programming and Program Translation Review	-	-	-	-
29	4/4	Examination 2	1 - 6	1,2,6,10	-	Exam 2
30	4/7	Hardware: Logic Machine and Gates	7.1 - 7.2	-	-	-
31	4/9	Hardware: Arithmetic	7.3	-	-	-
32	4/11	Hardware: Architecture	7.4	-	-	Project Outline
33	4/14	Performance, Dependability, Concurrency and Parallelism	-	5	-	-
34	4/16	Theory of Computation: Impossible Programs and The Halting Problem	8.1 - 8.2	3	-	-
35	4/18	Theory of Computation: Non-feasibility, NP-problems	8.3	4	-	-
36	4/21	AI: Cognitive Computers, Intelligent Automata, People and Machines	9.1 - 9.3	8 (AI)	-	-
37	4/23	AI: Artificial Skills and Attributes; Simulation; Robotics	9.4 - 9.5	7	-	Lab 3
38	4/25	Computers, Society and Technology; technical and other "limits"	10.1 - 10.3	8	-	-
39	4/28	Issues of Security, Privacy, and Public Policy	10.4 - 10.7	9	-	-
40	4/30	Future Trends in Computing: "Why the future doesn't need us."	-	-	-	-
41	5/2	Course Review	-	-	-	Term Project
F	early May	Examination 3	1 - 10	1 - 10	1 - 9	Exam 3

Schedule is tentative and subject to revision throughout the term.