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Course News:

April 24, 2008: The Final Exam will be held on Tuesday, April 29 from 8am to noon in Sitterson 014.
March 27, 2008: The second Quiz will be held on April 15, and will cover all material up to April 1.
Febuary 19, 2008: I need to cancel today's office hours, but I will replace them with extra hours tomorrow from 9am-10am, and 2pm-3pm.
Febuary 14, 2008: The first Quiz will be held on 2/26/08. It will cover up to lecture 8, and be open book, open note, and no computer.
Febuary 3, 2008: Due to popular demand, I have added extra office hours on Monday from 2pm-4pm. Also, I need to leave promptly at 3pm on Tuesdays.
January 9, 2008: Welcome to Comp 101! Check back here regularly for course updates and news. For now you can download the course syllabus. We will hold our first class meeting on 1/10 in SN014 from 9:30am to 10:45am.

Textbook:

We'll be using no textbook this semester. I will supply electronic notes on this website prior to each lecture.

Course Staff:

Lectures:		Leonard McMillan
Phone:		919-962-1778
Email:
Office:		SN258, Sitterson Hall
Office Hours:		M 2:00pm-4:00pm, T 2:00pm-3:00pm

Teaching Assistant:		Nick Dragan
Phone:		919-962-1860
Email:
Office:		SN045
Office Hours:		T 2-4pm, W 3:30-5:30pm

Grading:

Best 4 of 5 project-problem sets:		40%
2 Quizzes:		30%
Final Exam:		30%

Project/Problem sets will be due at the specified class meeting (before lecture). You will have at least two weeks to complete each set. Late problem sets will be penalized as follows:

Lectures Late		Max Score
1	=	70%
2	=	50%
3	=	35%
>3	=	0%

The lowest project/problem-set scores will be dropped. No homeworks will be due on the week of a quiz.

I will attempt to put all course materials online before class. Bring your laptop if you want to follow along.

Lecture Slides:

Lecture 1: Introduction to FITness
Lecture 2: Computer Technology
Lecture 3: Information, Please
Lecture 4: Computing Via Table Lookup
Lecture 5: State Machines (Roboant)
Lecture 6: Limits of Computation    (Try Eliza)
Lecture 7: Getting to know your Computer
Lecture 8: A Simple Computer (UNC-101 Simulator)
      The first quiz will cover Lectures 1-8.
Lecture 9: Algorithms
Lecture 10: Computers as Interpreters
Lecture 11: Computing with SpreadSheets    (download NCAA2008.csv)
Lecture 12: Databases
Lecture 13: Networking and the Web
Lecture 14: Creating Web Pages and Mashup
   (Try A Tutorial for setting up an Mashup page using Popfly)
      The second quiz will cover Lectures 9-16.
Lecture 15: Sights and Sounds
   (link to Python Imaging Library)
   (download Mandrill image)
Lecture 16: 3D Graphics, Movies and Games
Lecture 17: Computers and Society

Problem Sets:

Problem Set #1	Handout (Link to project page)	Solutions
Problem Set #2	Handout (Link to project page)	Solutions
Problem Set #3	Handout	Solutions
Problem Set #4	Handout	Solutions Excel file
Problem Set #5	Handout	Solutions

Course Related Links:

How-tos, How'd they do thats?, and Humor

PC self disassembly (I need one of these :))

Nerdy packaging for useful keyboard shortcut tips

Computer History (if you're having problems sleeping)