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COMP2300: Introduction to Computer
Systems
Semester 1 2007
Course staff:
Dr Peter Strazdins
(coordinator and lecturer)
Jie Cai and Peter Janes (tutors)
The computer lies at the heart of computing. Without it most of the
computing disciplines today would be a branch of theoretical
mathematics. To be a professional in any field of computing today, one
should not regard the computer as just a black box that executes
programs by magic. All students of computing should acquire some
understanding and appreciation of a computer system's functional
components, their characteristics, their performance, and their
interactions. There are practical implications as well. Students need
to understand computer architecture in order to structure a program so
that it runs more efficiently on a real machine. In selecting a system
to use, they should to able to understand the tradeoff among various
components, such as CPU clock speed vs. memory size.
(From IEEE/ACM Computing Curricula 2001).
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- Lecture times and venue: see the
ANU timetable
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A total of 30 lectures will be given, see the
course activity schedule to determine exactly which lecture slots are being
used.
- Tutorial/Laboratory session times also available from the
ANU timetable (but we will probably not open Group 5).
You attend only one lab session - the one you
register for!!
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contact course co-ordinator to request changes)
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News
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comp2300.announcements: I will post relevant announcements for
the course on this notice board.
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comp2300.talk This is for you as students to use and share
information. It will be occasionally monitored by the course
lecturers.
- mid-semester exam is finalized to
2pm Thu 05 April.
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Last modified:
Fri Mar 16 12:25:36 EST 2007