Introduction to Computer Systems (ICS)

 

Autumn 2011

 

Syllabus and timetable

 

Preliminaries and pdf

 

Slides for week 2 (11.10.11): 1st half and pdf, 2nd half and pdf

Slides for week 3 (18.10.11): 1st half and pdf, 2nd half and pdf

Slides for week 4 (25.10.11): 1st half and pdf, 2nd half and pdf

Slides for week 5 (1.11.11): 2nd half and pdf

Slides for week 6 (8.11.11): 2nd half and pdf

Slides for week 7 (15.11.11): 1st half and pdf, 2nd half and pdf

Slides for week 8 (22.11.11): 1st half and pdf, 2nd half and pdf

Slides for week 9 (29.11.11): 1st half and pdf, 2nd half and pdf

Slides for week 10 (6.12.11): 2nd half and pdf

Slides for week 11 (13.12.11): 1st half and pdf

           Useful Web Pages

                             Elementary arithmetic http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~roger/arith.html

Integers and fractions http://www.purplemath.com/modules/numtypes.htm

Binary arithmetic http://www.purplemath.com/modules/numbbase.htm

More binary arithmetic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_numeral_system

Two’s complement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two's_complement

Algorithms http://userpages.wittenberg.edu/bshelburne/Comp150/Algorithms.htm

More algorithms http://users.evtek.fi/~jaanah/IntroC/DBeech/3gl_step.htm

 

                Past Tests and Examination Papers

Summary answers to the 2006 Computer Systems and Elements of Programming examination

Summary answers for the in class test held on 14 January 2005.

In class test held on 27 January 2006

Summary answers to the in class test held on 12 December 2006

Summary answers to the in class test held on 18 November 2008

 

Summary answers to the in-class test held on 8th November 2011

 

The syllabus for ICS is taken from the module Computer Systems and Elements of Programming.

The college library has past examination question papers for CSEP and for ICS in electronic form.