Computer Science 111 Lab Manual
Report ID: TR-346-91Author: Blum, Jeff / Thompson, Jonathan / Steiglitz, Kenneth
Date: 1991-09-00
Pages: 183
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Abstract:
This is the lab manual for COS 111, an introductory course in computer science for liberal arts students, as it was taught for the first time in the fall semester of 1991. It includes a general introduction, topic outline, a set of nine laboratory exercises for the NeXT, and a collection of CheatSheets that provide supporting material for the labs. The topics are: (1) Introduction (2) Communications [news, mail, ftp, telnet], (3) Graphics [PostScript, lpr, Edit, Yap, TopDraw, etc.], (4) Presentation [WriteNow, troff, etc.] (5) Sound [SoundEditor], (6) Programming in C, (7) Selection sort, (8) More sound, using C, and (9) Information processing [grep, wc, sort]. The lectures themselves included an introduction to complexity theory [big-oh notation, analysis of sorting, etc.] and computability theory [Turing machines, the halting problem, etc.].