UIT2201: CS

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UIT2201 CS IT Revolution

• Course Web-Site (Spring 2009)
• http//www.comp.nus.edu.sg/leonghw/uit2201/Sp2009
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• Lecturer A/P Leong Hon Wai
• Email, MSN, FB leonghw_at_comp.nus.edu.sg
• Homepage http//www.comp.nus.edu.sg/leonghw/
• Contact
• Office COM1, 04-31
• Tel [phone]
• Dept of Computer Science, SOC
• Consultation
• Office Hours TBA ( by email-appt)

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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, its 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

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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 CSIT angle

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UIT2201 CS IT Revolution

• Learn how to leverage on IT
• Whats possible, whats 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.
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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)

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UIT2201 Other fun things

• Good jokes, fun jokes
• Designing your own web-pages
• Its 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?)

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

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UIT2201 CS IT Revolution

• Assessment
• Participation 5
• Tutorials 20 (about 10 sets)
• Project 15
• Quizzes 1515 (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)

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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)

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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