Computer Education

Lecture 1
Introduction
Every minute dies a man,
Every minute one is born

Alfred Tennyson
(very famous poet)
Every minute dies a man,
And one and sixteenth is
born

Charles Babbage
(very famous computer scientist)
 Charles Babbage (1791-1871)

• Creator of the Analytical Engine - the

first general-purpose digital computer
(1833)

• The Analytical Engine was not built until

1943 (in the form of the Harvard Mark I)
 The Analytical Engine

• A programmable, mechanical, digital machine

• Could carryout any calculation

• Could make decisions based upon the results

of the previous calculation

• Components: input; memory; processor;

output
 Ada, Countess of Lovelace(1815-52)

• Babbage: the father of computing

Ada: the mother?
• Wrote a program for computing the
Bernoulli’s sequence on the Analytical
Engine - world’s 1st computer program
• A programming language specifically
Ada?
designed by the US Dept of Defense for
developing military applications was
named Ada to honor her contributions
 A lesson that we all can learn
from Babbage’s Life
• Charles Babbage had huge difficulties raising
money to fund his research

• As a last resort, he designed a clever mathematical

scheme along with Ada, the Countess of Lovelace

• It was designed to increase their odds while

gambling. They bet money on horse races to raise
enough money to support their research
experiments

• Guess what happened at the end? They lost every

penny that they had.
Why use a computer?

What value do
Computers bring?

What are they good

at?
 
fast
 
bored
 
storage
What type of
problems are
not suitable
?
for computers
 It could analyze up to 300
Here is a fact:
billion chess moves in three
minutes
In 1997 Deep Blue, a
supercomputer designed by IBM,
beat Gary Kasparov, the World
Chess Champion

That computer was exceptionally

fast, did not get tired or bored. It
just kept on analyzing the situation
and kept on searching until it found
the perfect move from its list of
possible moves

And now a question …

can computers

think?
embedded computers
Goals for Today

1. To develop an appreciation about

the capabilities of computing

2. To find about the structure &

policies of this course
Computer Education

Course Contents
& Structure
Course Objectives
1.
To build an appreciation for the
fundamental concepts in computing

2. To achieve a beginners
proficiency in Web page
development

3. To become familiar with popular

PC productivity software
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1. Fundamental concepts

2.
3.
Intro to computing
Evolution of Development
computing methodology
Computer organization Design heuristics
Building a PC Web design for usability
Microprocessors Computer networks
Intro to the Internet
Binary numbers & logic
Internet services
Computer software
Graphics & animation
Operating systems
Intelligent systems
Application software Data management
Algorithms Cyber crime
Flowcharts Social implications
Programming languagesThe computing
profession
1.
2. development
Web page

3.
 Web Development

The World Wide Web

Flow control & loops
Making a Web page
Arrays
Lists & tables
Built-in functions
Interactive forms
User-defined functions
More on forms
Event handling
Objects & methods
String manipulation
Data types &
operators Images & graphics
Programming
methodology
1.
2.
3. software
Productivity
Productivity Applications

Word processor

Spreadsheet

Presentation
software

Database
Instructor:
Sardar Mehboob Hussain
[email protected]

Textbooks:
UC - Understanding Computers
(2000 ed.)
JS - Learn JavaScript in a
Weekend
 Reading Assignments

Please make sure to read the assigned

material for each week before the
commencement of the corresponding
week

Reading that material beforehand will help

you greatly in absorbing with ease the
matter discussed during the lecture
marks
distribution …
Assignments and Quizzes(15%)

• Almost one every week, 13 in all

• No credit for late submissions

• The lowest 2 assignment grades will be dropped

 Midterm Exam (25%)

• During the 8th week

• Duration: One hour

• Will cover all material covered during

the first seven weeks
 Final Exam (40%)

• During the 16th week

• Will cover the whole of the course with a

slight emphasis on the material covered
after the midterm exam

• Duration: 2 hours
 Midterm Final Exam-
Examina- ination
tion 40
25

Homework Assignments
15
 First Assignment
A. “Assignment 1” giving me some information
(in around 50 words) about what you see
yourself doing ten years from now.
 A suggestion about unfamiliar terms

• We try not to use any new terms without

explaining them first

• However, it is not possible to do that all the

time

• If you encounter any unfamiliar terms during

the lectures, please note them down and
consult the GLOSSARY provided at the end
of the “Understanding Computers” text book
for their meaning
 Let’s summarize the things that
we have covered today?

A few things about:

– the very first digital computer & its

inventor

– the capability of modern computers

– the structure and contents of CE

 In the Next Lecture …
We’ll continue the story of the evolution
of digital computers form the Analytical
Engine onwards

We’ll discuss many of the key inventions

and developments that he lead to the
shape of the current field of computing