Lecture 01: Introduction CS 101: Introduction to Computing

Introduction

Shahab Haider

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Instructor
Email: shahab@giki.edu.pk

Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering

Office: Office # 3, Near PSD Lab, FES

Office Hours:

Week days: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Students are encouraged to visit the office

(if I am not busy in some official work)

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Course TA
• Mr. Mohsin

• Never hesitate to contact TA or me whenever you have some

problem

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Books
Dietal and Dietal, “How to Program C++”
3rd Edition

J J Parson and Dan Oja, “Computer Concepts”

7th Edition

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Dishonesty, Plagiarism in Quizzes, Assignments

• All individuals involved in any kind of cheating in any exam,

quiz, assignment or project will get -50% score.

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Attendance
• Students are required to attend 100% classes of courses
registered and can not abstain from even a single class.

• For circumstances beyond their control, students must apply

for leave on prescribed Leave Application form.

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Tentative Evaluation Breakdown

Assignments (5) 10
Quizzes (5) 10
Term Project (1) 15
Midterm (1) 20
Final (1) 45

Total 100

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Course Execution
• 2 lectures of one hour every week
• 1 lab of three hours every week (CS 101 L)

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Course Outline
Part I: 05 Lectures
Computers & Applications, History of Computing, Introduction to Hardware
and Software, Peripheral Devices, Data Representation, Number
Systems, Conversion Methods, ASCII / Unicode, Microprocessors,
Memory, Storage Devices……….

Part II: 25 Lectures

Algorithms: Flowcharts & Pseudocode, Assignment Operators, If Selection
Statement, If… Else Selection Statement, Nested Control Structures,
switch Multiple-Selection Statement,
………………………………………………….……….. Passing Arrays to
Functions, Searching Arrays, Pointers, Library Functions and Header
Files

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Important Question …
• Why do we need programming?

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Computers Today

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A Tool for Communication

Social Networking

Searching
e-mail

Blog
Chat

Content Sharing
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A Tool for Entertainment

Multimedia

Games
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Computer Revolution !
Mars
Rover

Flight
Simulator
Google Wearable Computer
Servers

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Computer
• We know how to use a computer

• We have an idea where it stands today

• YOU have to contribute towards its future !

• Now let’s look at what it is and the modest beginnings from

where it evolved !

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History of Computer

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What is a Computer (-1-)

• A computer is a machine that

– inputs (takes in) facts and information (known as data*)
– then processes (does something to or with) it
– can also store data
– afterwards it outputs, or displays, the results for you to see

* Data is all kinds of information, including,

pictures, letters, numbers, and sounds

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What is a Computer (-2-)

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What is a Computer (-3-)

• The defining feature of modern computers which

distinguishes them from all other machines is that they can
be programmed
– a list of instructions (the program) can be given to the computer
e.g.,
– add one number to another
– move some data from one location to another
– send a message to some external device, etc
– it will store them (in memory)
– and carry them out (execute) some time in future
– Usually in the same order in which the instructions were given

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History of Computer (-1-)

• The first use of the word "computer" was recorded in

1613
– referring to a person who carried out calculations, or
computations !

• The word continued to be used in that sense until the

middle of the 20th century
– before modern electronic computers were developed

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History of Computer (-2-)

• The history of the modern computer begins with two separate
technologies
– Automated Calculation
– Programmability

• Early computers were mechanical calculating devices such

as
– Abacus, 3000 B.C
– Slide rule

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History of Computer (-3-)

Chinese Abacus: for performing arithmetic processes

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History of Computer (-4-)

Slide Rule: for performing multiplication, division, computing

roots, logarithms, trigonometric functions
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History of Computer (-5-)

• ENIAC - Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer -
was the first general-purpose electronic computer developed
around 1946
• operated at 5 kIPS [thousand instructions per second]
» Today's desktops can perform 10000+ MIPS
• weighed 30 tons (Equals weight of an average Asian
elephant)
• size was roughly 8.5 x 3 x 80 feet
• contained around 5 million hand-soldered joints
• consumed 150 kW of power; enough to dim the lights of
Peshawar when it was run!
– Input was given from an IBM card reader
– An IBM card punch was used for output
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History of Computer (-6-)

Working
on,
rather
‘inside’ ,
ENIAC

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History of Computer (-7-)

IBM Punch Card: Programs and data were punched by hand or

a key-punch-machine and read into a card reader

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• Punch cards to:

• Start a job
• Compile a job
• Load a job
• Execute a job
• End a job
• Mainframe Operating System
• First rudimentary OS
• Based on batch processing

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Four kind of Computers

1 Microcomputers
– These are the most widely used and the fastest-growing type of
computers. There are two major categories:
– Desktop Computers are small enough to fit on top or along the
side of a desk and yet are too big to carry around.
• Personal Computers
• Workstations
– Portable Computers are small enough and light enough to move
easily from one place to another.
• Laptops: 10-16 pounds in weight
• Notebooks: 5-10 pounds in weight
• Subnotebooks: 2-6 pounds in weight
• Personal Digital Assistants: Also known as palmtop
computers and handheld PCs. They combine pen input,
writing recognition and communication capabilities

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2 Minicomputers
 They are desk size machines.
 They fall between microcomputers and mainframe computers
in their processing speeds and data-storing capabilities.
 They might be used for research or monitoring a particular
manufacturing process.
 Smaller companies have been using minicomputers for their
data processing needs such as accounting/billing systems.

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3 Mainframe Computers
 These are large computers.
 They are capable of great processing speeds and data-
storage.
 They are used by large organizations – business, banks,
government agencies etc – to handle millions of transactions.
 For example, airline companies use mainframe computers to
process information about millions of travelers.

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4 Supercomputers
 The most powerful type of computer is the supercomputer.
 These machines are special, high-capacity computers used by
very large organizations.
 For example, NASA uses supercomputers to track and control
space explorations.
 Supercomputers are also used for oil exploration, simulations
and worldwide weather forecasting.

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Do you know GIKI has a super computer?

• The facility consists of 160 CPU Cores,
• 1024 GPU Cores
• 640 GB RAM
For details: http://www.giki.edu.pk/Documents/HPCManual.pdf

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The future of computers predicted in the past

• I think there is a world market for maybe

five computers.
-- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

• Computers in the future may weigh no

more than 1.5 tons.
-- Popular Mechanics, 1949

• There is no reason anyone would want a

computer in their home.
--Ken Olson, CEO, Digital Equipment
Corp., 1977

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References
• http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/
Basic_Computing_Using_Windows
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer
• http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/teaching/cs4/
summer.08/notes/historyofcomputing/
• http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/comphist/eniac-story.html
• http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL-e-h.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motherboard

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