Lectures: CompSci 111/111G Semester 1, 2020 City

• Monday: 9am in LgChem (Chemistry Building 301-G050)
• Tuesday: 9am in LgChem (Chemistry Building 301-G050)
• Friday: 9am in LgChem (Chemistry Building 301-G050)

Proposed Lecture Schedule (Subject to change)

Lecture recordings can be found in Canvas under Lecture Recordings

Lecture slides will be uploaded here before each lecture.

Week 1

01. Introduction / Hardware, components of a computer system

An overview of the course, and an introduction to the electronic components used in a typical PC.

Slides: [PDF]

• [Exercise Sheet] [With Answers]
• Computer Hardware
• Moore's Law
• RAM
• Expansion Cards
• Hard Disks

02. Bits, bytes, digital information

An introduction to the way information is stored digitally.

Slides: [PDF]

• [Exercise Sheet] [With Answers]
• Binary numeral system
• Bits
• Bytes
• Standard Decimal Prefixes
• Binary Prefixes

03. History of Computing

A short history of computing

Slides:[PDF]

Week 2

04. Introduction to networking and the Internet

A brief overview of the history of the Internet, how it was designed and how it works now.

Slides:[PDF]

• [Exercise Sheet] [With Answers]
• History of the Internet
• Internet Infrastructure
• Protocols
• Domain Names
• Networking Hardware

05. Electronic Communication and the Internet

Using the Internet to communicate with others. The common types of applications used to communicate and the way that they work.

Slides: [PDF]

• [Exercise Sheet] [With Answers]
• Email
• The first email message
• Net Manners
• Netiquette
• Email etiquette 1

06. Publishing online using tools - blogs, wikis

Using the Internet to publish ideas and documents. An introduction to blogs for maintaining journals and wikis for working collaboratively.

Slides: [PDF]

• [Exercise Sheet] [With Answers]
• Blogs
• Wikis
• How to edit a wiki page

Week 3

07. The World Wide Web

An introduction to the World Wide Web

Slides: [PDF]

• [Exercise Sheet] [With Answers]
• First Web browser
• World Wide Web
• Web Browsers
• Search Engines
• Sir Tim Berners-Lee marks 25 years of World Wide Web
• News article on search history can be used to identify individuals

08. Social and Legal Issues

Main social and legal issues related to the use and development of WWW.

Slides: [PDF]

• World wide web needs bill of rights
• Malware

09. Word processing, preferences, styles, references using RefWorks

Word processing using MS-Word. Generate bibliographies with RefWorks.

Slides: [PDF]

• [Exercise Sheet] [With Answers]
• ASCII
• Text Editor
• Word Processor
• WYSIWYG
• RefWorks at the UoA Library

Week 4 (University Closed - online course delivery)

10. Spreadsheets 1

Background on spreadsheets, introduction to Excel

Slides:[PDF]

[Download Lecture Recording]

• More on spreadsheets

11. Spreadsheets 2

Advanced spreadsheets in Excel: functions, lookup, graphs

Slides:[PDF]

[Download Lecture Recording]

12. Health and Technology

A brief look at technology related health issues

Slides:[PDF]

• Health and Technology
• The Distraction of Technology in the Classroom
• Digital Distractions in the Classroom: Student Classroom Use of Digital Devices for Non-Class Purposes
• Instant Gratification & Its Dark Side
• Is Facebook creating "iDisorders"? The link between clinical symptoms of psychiatric disorders and technology use, attitudes and anxiety
• Five days at outdoor education camp without screens improves preteen skills with nonverbal emotional cues
• Computer Vision Syndrome: A Review
• Technology and Hearing Loss
• Occupational overuse syndrome (OOS)
• Occupational Overuse Syndrome: Guidelines for Prevention and Management

Week 5 (University Closed - online course delivery)

13. Software, licences, conventions

Different kinds of software and software licences

Slides: [PDF]

• [Exercise Sheet] [With Answers]
• Introduction to Software
• Software Licenses
• Freeware
• Shareware
• Propietary Software
• Copyleft
• Operating Systems
• Command Line Interfaces
• Graphical User Interface

14. LaTeX 1

An introduction LaTeX

Slides:[PDF]

• LaTeX homepage

15. LaTeX 2

LaTeX continued

Slides:[PDF]

Week 6 - No lectures

Week 7

16 & 17. Digital Games

An introduction to digital games

Slides:[PDF]

18. Introduction to Python Programming

How to start coding with Python

Slides:[PDF]

• Python homepage

Week 8

19. Python Programming

Conditionals and loops

Slides:[PDF]

20. Python Programming

Turtle Graphics

Slides:[PDF]

21. Python Programming Examples

Slides: No Slides - see recording

Week 9

22. Web Design and HTML

An introduction to HTML5

Slides:[PDF]

23. HTML5 and CSS

An introduction Cascading Style Sheets

Slides:[PDF]

• The W3C homepage

24. CSS 2

CSS continued

Slides:[PDF]

Week 10

Week 10

25. Digital Images and Vector graphics

How digital images are stored, and how that affects the quality of the image.

Slides:[PDF]

• Bitmap
• Vector graphics

26. Artificial Intelligence

An introduction to AI

Slides:[PDF]

27. AI (cont.)

An introduction to AI

Slides:[PDF]