CS1: Higher Computing
CS1: Higher Computing (UNSW). Instructors: Richard Buckland, Tim Lambert, and Malcolm Ryan. This is a collection of the 2008 lectures of COMP 1917 - the introductory course for computer science at UNSW (University of New South Wales). This course consists of three strands: programming, systems, and general computer-science literacy. The programming strand is further divided into two parts. For the first half of the course we cover small scale programming, in the second half we look at how to effectively use teams to produce more substantial software. In the systems strand we will look at how computers work. Concentrating on microprocessors, memory, and machine code. In the literacy strand we will look at topics drawn from: computing history, algorithms, WWW programming, ethics and law, cryptography and security, and other topics of general interest. The strands will be covered in an intermingled fashion.