University of Calgary CSPC 231 Introduction to Computer Science I Lecture Notes 1st part

I. Computer Science as a Discipline Lecture 1:  Introducing the Universal Machine Contents:  The Very Idea of the Universal Machine Turing's Symbol Manipulator A Brief History of Practical Universal Machines Lecture 2: Anatomy of a Computer Contents: Hardware Anatomy Software / Hardware Layers The Register Machine Faces of the Machine Lecture 3: Operating Systems and Networks  Contents: Brief History of Operating Systems Multiprogramming and Multitasking Network Operating Systems Booting an Operating System Operating System Architecture Lecture 4: Low-Level Data Representation Contents: Binary Number Systems Conversions between Number Systems Binary Arithmetic and Logic