CSCI 099 Computing in Our World Spring 2008

Midterm Review

1. Textbook (Dale and Lewis) Chapter 1 to Chapter 5 (skip the topics that we didn't discuss in class):
   • Different layers of software surrounding computer hardware
   • Binary representation of numbers
   • Conversion of numbers in different bases
   • Logical gates and combinational circuits
   • organization of computer components
2. UNIX (LINUX) command line programming: cd, cp, ls, chmod, mv, ...,  etc
3. Composition of web pages: HTML tags, upload to server, etc
4. Basics of ALICE programming: first two chapters of Randy Pausch's book (you can skip the features or topics that we didn't discuss in the lab)