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Computer Use: Fundamentals How I learned to stop worrying and EECS 1520 Computer Use: Fundamentals or How I learned to stop worrying and love the computer

EECS 1520 -- Computer Use: Fundamentals Instructor John Hofbauer Office 2016-LAS E-mail hofbauer@eecs.yorku.ca Office hours see course website Course website www.eecs.yorku.ca/course/1520

EECS 1520 -- Computer Use: Fundamentals Evaluation 9 Homework (2% each = 18%) weekly, paper printouts in dropbox Tests (first, 15%; second, 20%) in class, approx. 45 minutes long Final Exam (47%) All multiple choice: 100 M/C questions with answers placed on Scantron form Content: all readings in Topics

EECS 1520 -- Computer Use: Fundamentals How to do well in this course do all the homework exercises! read the book and study the notes attend lectures seek help if confused; ask questions write both tests

Video Video: The Machine that Changed the world Primary Website: waxy.org/2008/06/the_machine_that_ changed_the_world See “Week-01.1-video.doc” for more information

A Short and Condensed History of Computing Part I Ancient History: up to 1930

New book coming, Oct 7

Origins of Digital Computers

Early Calculating Machines Pascaline

Jacquard Loom (1804)

Charles Babbage (1791–1871)

Babbage’s Difference Engine

World’s First Programmer

Legacy of Babbage

1880-1901 The Birth of the Modern Mechanical Calculator ..\x100TriumphatorCNser113763.jpg

Hollerith Tabulator

Early Pocket Calculators