Computer Science 10: The Beauty and Joy of Computing (Spring 2012, UC Berkeley) | Computer Science

Computer Science 10: The Beauty and Joy of Computing

Computer Science 10: The Beauty and Joy of Computing (Spring 2012, UC Berkeley). Instructor: Professor Dan Garcia. This course provide an introduction to the beauty and joy of computing, dealing with the history, social implications, great principles, and future of computing. We'll focus on some of the "Big Ideas" of computing, such as abstraction, design, recursion, concurrency, simulations, and the limits of computation. We'll show some beautiful applications of computing that have changed the world, talk about the history of computing, and where it will go in the future. Throughout the course, relevance will be emphasized: relevance to the student and to society. (from UC Berkeley EECS)

Introduction

Lecture 01 - Welcome; Abstraction

Lecture 02 - How it Works - 3D Graphics

Lecture 03 - Video Games

Lecture 04 - Functions

Lecture 05 - Programming Paradigms

Lecture 06 - Algorithms

Lecture 07 - Algorithmic Complexity

Lecture 08 - Concurrency

Lecture 09 - Recursion

Lecture 10 - Social Implications of Computing

Lecture 11 - Recursion II

Lecture 12 - Sharing Multimedia on the Internet (Guest Lecturer: Gerald Friedland)

Lecture 13 - Human-Computer Interaction (Guest Lecturer: Bjoern Hartmann)

Lecture 14 - Computational Game Theory

Lecture 15 - Twitter (Guest Lecturer: Raffi Krikorian)

Lecture 16 - Artificial Intelligence (Guest Lecturer: Anna Rafferty)

Lecture 17 - The Internet: How it Works and How to Keep it That Way

Lecture 18 - Higher Order Functions I

Lecture 19 - Higher Order Functions II

Lecture 20 - Distributed Computing

Lecture 21 - Saving the World with Computing (Guest Lecturer: Kathy Yelick)

Lecture 22 - Limits of Computing

Lecture 23 - Future of Computing

Lecture 24 - Intro to Software as a Service

Lecture 25 - Summary and Farewell

References

CS10: The Beauty and Joy of Computing (Spring 2012)
Instructor: Professor Dan Garcia. Semester Schedule. Readings. Lecture Slides. CS10, The Beauty and Joy of Computing, is an exciting new course offered by the UC Berkeley EECS Dept.