Class Introduction

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Class Introduction

• Xiangming Mu

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Introduction

• Class description
• Pre-requirements
• Class goals
• Class hours,contact information
• Students information,questionnaire
• Text books
• Evaluation
• Email list for class

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How computer works?

• What is computer?
• Basic computer architecture
• Input/Output
• Memory
• Arithmetic and logic unit(ALU)
• Central Processing Unit(CPU)
• Operating Systems
• Distributed and Client/Server

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What is program?

• What is program? What is software?
• Computer instruction(language)
• Machine languages
• Assembly languages
• High-level languages
• C, C, Java, Script(JavaScript,VBScript,Perl),SQL
  

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Object-Oriented Programming(OOP) and C

• traditional C
• Object-oriented style object
• C

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History of Java
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Why Java?

• Pure object oriented
• Graphic User Interface(GUI)
• Platform independent
• Application Programming Interface(API)
• Built-in network support
• Easy to learn

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More Information

• Userful links

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Assignments

• Enroll the email list
• Set up your class web page