CMPE 003

PERSONAL COMPUTERS

Spring 2002

Notes to people will be here:

Mostly complete list of terms for midterm1
Mostly complete list of terms for midterm2
Circuit Example for midterm 2

Accounts
Reading
Assignments
Final Project
Quiz Answers
Midterm and Final
Sections
Syllabus
Acedemic Honesty
Hints and Tips includes how to use rn (read news ) without netscape.
Lecture Outlines

Course outline:

This course discusses fundamental concepts and terminology of hardware, software, and the Internet from an Engineering perspective. The focus is on IBM-compatible Personal Computers. Basic hands-on training is provided through lab assignments on:

Operating system interfaces,
Internet communication,
Office productivity software,
Web publishing,
Elementary programming.

Instructor: Doanna Weissgerber
Office: ISB 115
Office hour: Tuesday 5:05-5:55 and Thursday by prior appointment
Last office hour during Final exam Wednesday, June 5 4:00-5:00pm
I will stay as long as people are in my office or until 7:00 pm whichever is later.
Office phone: NONE
Email: doanna@cats.ucsc.edu

TA:Meenal Agarkar
Email: meenal@cse.ucsc.edu

TA: Manju Anand
Email: manju@cse.ucsc.edu

Tutor: Juan Valles
Tutor: Anitza Magallon

SECTION TIMES

Day	Time	Location	TA's and Tutors	Notes
Monday	3-5 pm	Oakes	TBA	20 computers
Tuesday	8-9 pm	Oakes	TBA	20 computers
Wednesday	12-2 pm	SSI I	TBA	40 computers
Wednesday	7-9 pm	Oakes	TBA	20 computers
Thursday	12-2 pm	BE109	TBA	49 computers
Thursday	2-4 pm	BE109	TBA	49 computers

Text: Computers: Tools for the Information Age, 7^th Edition. H. L. Capron. Prentice Hall, 2000. The website for this book is here. It is recommended that you also purchase an elementary manual for Microsoft Office such as The Complete Idiot's guide to Office , or Office for Dummies.

Accounts

Students are REQUIRED to obtain a CATS computer account (or login) from UCSC's Communications & Technology Services. This organization manages campus-wide computer resources. All enrolled UCSC students are entitled to receive, at no additional charge, a CATS computer account, access to the CATS Instructional Computing resources, CATS-IC, and access to the CATS Information Resource Center, CATS-IRC. CATS also refers to computer accounts as athena account, unix accounts, email accounts, or network i.d.

Reading

The following is a TENTATIVE schedule of topics for CMPE003 (Page numbers are from version 6 of the book.)

Week 1

Chapter 1 pp 18-34 Hardware

Chapter 2 pp 50-67 and 71-76 Software

Chapter 2 pp 67-71 MSDOS and Windows

Week 2

Chapter 3 pp 83-99 CPU

lecture on Binary conversions

Week 3

Chapter 4 pp 114-138 I/O

Capter 5 pp 146-170) Storage and multimedia

Week 4

Chapter 6 pp 177-202 Networking

Chapter 7 ver 6 pp 209-228 Internet

Week 5

In class review session

MIDTERM I covering everything up to and including Internet

Week 6

Chapter 10 pp 305-332 Security and privacy

Chapter 11 pp 337-363 Word processing and desktop publishing

Chapter 12 pp 369-386 Spread sheets and business graphics

Week 7

Chapter 13 pp 401-412 Database Management systems

Chapter 14 pp 417-442) Programming languages

Week 8

Programming in Java

Chapter 17 pp 513-528 Cutting Edge Topics

Week 9

Most likely more cutting edge topics

Week 10

MIDTERM II covering from the Internet to cutting edge topics.

Week 11

projects due BY IN CLASS

late projects are not accepted

If you have version 5 of the book see reading translation

Assignments

Homework is due at the beginning of class.
Late homework will not be accepted.
The assignments are:

Assignment 1 Due Thursday April 4
Assignment 2 Due Thursday April 11 Answers

Assignment 3Due Thursday April 25
Assignment 4Due Thursday May 2
Assignment 5Due Thursday May 16
Assignment 6Due Thursday May 23

Final Project

Final Project

Late Projects WILL NOT BE Accepted

Quizzes

The Answers for Quizzes

Quiz 1 answers
Quiz 2 answers
Quiz 3 answers
Quiz 4 answers

Midterms and Final Project

Midterm I will be held Tuesday 4/30
Midterm II will be held Thursday 5/23
The final project is due at the latest on 5/30 Though the final project is due May 30, I expect that you will have started the project early and therefore will be done by the beginning of the last week.
Learning to use a computer is best accomplished by using the computer not reading about it. There is no final exam.

Academic Honesty and Academic Integrity:
In recent years, there has been an increased number of cheating incidents in many UC campuses, and unfortunately, UCSC is no exception. The School of Engineering has a zero tolerance policy for any incident of academic dishonesty. If cheating occurs, there may be consequences within the context of the course, and in addition, every case of academic dishonesty is referred to the students' college Provost, who then sets the disciplinary process in motion. Cheating in any part of the course may lead to failing the course and suspension or dismissal from the university.

What is cheating? In short, it is presenting someone else's work as your own. Examples would include copying another student's written or electronic homework assignment, or allowing your own work to be copied. Although you may discuss problems with fellow students, your collaboration must be at the level of ideas only. Legitimate collaboration ends when you "lend", "borrow", or "trade" written or electronic solutions to problems, or in any way share in the act of writing or electronically sharing your answers. If you do collaborate (legitimately) or receive help from anyone, you must credit them by placing their name(s) at the top of your paper.

What is Academic Integrity? This question is better answered with how we violate academic integrity. One prime example is fabrication. From the pages of the registrar: (http://www.ucsc.edu/academics/academic_integrity/resources.html) Fabrication:

In any academic exercise, submitting falsified data including bibliographic resources and experimental data, or altering graded coursework/exams and resubmitting to the instructor for a higher score.

Another example of violating academic integrity is Facilitating Academic Dishonesty:

The simplest form of this is taking someone else's exam or doing someone else's homework for them.

Hints and Tips

How to open files and folders and general Windows hints.

How to get an account on CATS (Communications and Technology Services):

If you do not already have a CATS account, register for one as soon as possible. This can be done from any computer lab on campus. Simply log on as "register", when prompted for a password respond "athena", and follow the instructions presented. If you need additional information on how to use the UNIX operating system, email, newsgroups, etc., you should definitely check out the resources at CATS . They are located downstairs in the Communications building.

Web site maintained by Doanna Weissgerber. If there are problems mail doanna@cse.ucsc.edu

These outlines are a general tool for the instructor to outline the lecture. They are meant as a convenience for your note taking. They will be posted AFTER the lecture. But they will not substitute for coming to class. They are by no means thorough and are in fact often cryptic.