1. Welcome to ….

2. 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

3. EECS 1520 -- Computer Use: Fundamentals
Instructor John Hofbauer
Office LAS
Office hours see course website
Course website

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

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

8. New book coming, Oct 7

9. Origins of Digital Computers

10. Early Calculating Machines
Pascaline

11. Jacquard Loom (1804)

12. Charles Babbage (1791–1871)

13. Babbage’s Difference Engine

14. World’s First Programmer

15. Legacy of Babbage

16. 1880-1901 The Birth of the Modern Mechanical Calculator
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17. Hollerith Tabulator

18. Early Pocket Calculators