CS 6001
Computing Hardware

Fall 2007, Dr. Ken Hoganson,
UNDER CONSTRUCTION!!

Textbooks: Basic Electricity, A Self-Teaching Guide, Charles W. Ryan, Wiley Publishers.   

Textbook: Concepts in Computing, Hoganson, 2007, (draft)

This course is a hybrid distance-learning course with self-paced self-study course materials including textbooks and lectures. Students will ready and follow the exercises in the text, and then complete a take-home, open-book, open-notes test.

Students will work through the indicated sections of the text during the Fall semester. The test will be scheduled toward the end of the semester.

The purpose of this new course is to facilitate the entry of our students into our graduate computer science program. Our unique program accommodates the admission of many students with various undergraduate majors requiring sufficient industrial computing background. Students from disparate disciplines may lack a basic understanding of electricity, which is needed for a solid grasp of principles covered in CS 8421 Computing Systems, and CS 8411 Embedded Systems, and other harware-related courses.

Read each chapter and work the questions at the back of the chapter. Take-home open-book open-notes exam at a date TBD.