Introduction to Computers

Textbook: G. Brookshear and D. Brylow, Computer Science: An Overview (13th Edition), Pearson, 2018. (ISBN: 1-292-26342-3)

Announcements

• We will be using Discord (https://discord.com/) as our primary software for contact.
  • The link to the course is https://discord.gg/RA89KhvSvg.
  • Because we don’t know who you are (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJMNnxrvGqs), please change your account to add your student ID, e.g., BigBadAss (00709527).

Course Materials

• 2026/9/7 Lecture 1 – Introduction
• 2026/9/14 Lecture 2 – Data storage
• 2026/9/21 Lecture 2 – Data storage
• 2026/10/5 Lecture 3 – Data manipulation (第一次小考)
• 2026/10/12 Lecture 4 – Operating systems
• 2026/10/19 Lecture 5 – Computer networks (第二次小考)
• 2026/10/26 (放假)(期中考) 也許11/2日考
• 2026/11/2 Lecture 5 – Computer networks
• 2026/11/9 Lecture 6 – Data Abstractions
• 2026/11/16 Lecture 7 – Algorithms (第三次小考)
• 2026/11/23 Lecture 8 – Programming Languages
• 2026/11/30 Lecture 9 – Data Abstraction (第四次小考)
• 2026/12/7 Lecture 10 – Computer graphics
• 2026/12/14 Lecture 11 – Theory of computation
• 2026/12/21 期末考

Lab Manuals

• 2026/9/7 Lecture 0 – Introduction
• 2027/9/14 Lab 1 – Digital Logic
  • 針對沒有Windows的同學(用Mac系列的), 可以參考 VMWare Fusion Player (https://free.com.tw/vmware-fusion-player-free/)
• 2026/9/21 Lab 2- Combinatorial logic
• 2026/10/5 Lab 3 – Hardware shopping
• 2026/10/12 Lab 4 – Benchmarking
• 2026/10/19 Lab 5 – Hardware Architecture and Data Manipulation
• 2026/10/26 –
• 2026/11/2  Lab 6 – Processes
• 2026/11/9 Lab 7 – HTML 5
• 2026/11/16 Lab 10 – Virtual Machines
• 2026/11/23 Lab 13 – Advanced VMs
• 2026/11/30 Linux usage
• 2026/12/7 Linux usage
• 2026/12/14 Linux usage
• 2026/12/22 期末考

 Assignments