The Tour of The World of Computing
to the tune of "The End of the World" by R.E.M.

lyrics by John Dougherty (and CS100 Sp2005?), 2004-5

Chorus:
It's the tour of the world of computing,
It's the tour of the world of computing,
It's the tour of the world of computing,
Module x.	x in {1, 2, ...}

START HERE:
That's great
With what we can automate
It's still up for debate
Our fate in the universe

Module 1: History
Charles Babbage had the will
To build a computation mill,
Ada Lovelace understood
Babbage's machine was good,
About 100 years would pass,
For Church's lambda-calculus,
Turing machine intelligence
If it could pass the Turing Test,
Mark I, Z1, where to point a gun
Ask ENIAC.
(to Chorus)

Module 2: Local Applications
Algorithm is a plan,
Program shows you understand.
Many people conform
To the Windows platform.
Macintosh with Unix,
And there's always Linux.
Analog, digital,
Boole saw practical.
Software, hardware,
Spyware everwhere --
Quite a fright.

Module 3: Global Applications
Arpanet, Internet,
Colleges and government,
Multimedia is next,
Followed by hypertext,
Servers decentralized,
Clients can share the ride,
Circuit switch, packet switch,
People getting rich,
Hyperlinks, source and sinks,
Content often stinks,
Just read your spam.

Module 4: HCI, GUI and Accessibility
Text works nicely,
Quite concisely,
Then user recall,
Must remember all,
Recognition motivates,
Graphic User Interface,
GUI, WYSIWYG,
point-click, text-to-speech
This technology,
If used wisely,
Makes accessibility
More than a possibility
Input, output, throughput, stop it
HCI.