CSC-200 e-text download

CSC-200 "Learning About Computers" e-book access page
© 2011 Jim Janossy
This page provides access to the e-book supporting course CSC-200 at DePaul University, Chicago.
Learning About Computers by Jim Janossy is an example of how course content (not just information content) can be
expressed in modern form incorporating web site and video content from public sources using hyperlinks, qWiklinks, and QR codes.
Completed March 22, 2011; I am in the process of fleshing out the qWiklinks now as our spring 2011 term commences.
For more information on qWiklinks visit qWik.us. This e-book has 132 pages and is a .pdf file 19 Mb in size.
(Licensed under Creative Commons -- see bottom of this page.)

Download this e-book version 1.0 as a .pdf (Right mouse click and "Save as" or your browser may hang in trying to download!)

Download e-book addendum pages (these are updates to version 1.0 that you also need, also a .pdf)

Chapter by chapter preview:

	Unit 1 - How Computers Came to Be 33 pages Signaling and communication using codes, symbols and alphabets, English represented in code, basic logic circuits, digital information organization and retention; modern developments: tablet computers, e-readers, the Consumer Electronics Show 2011.
	Unit 2 - The Computer Evolution 21 pages Experimental computers, mainframes, evolving computer architectures, minicomputers, personal computers, networks, office automation software; modern developments: supercomputers, weather and nuclear modeling, geoprocessing, satellite solar panel positioning.
	Unit 3 - Contemporary Computer Uses 31 pages Sound amplitude, frequency, sampling and reproduction, experimenting with sound waves, sound editing, sound file types, digital image basics, image file types, video editing and file types, barcodes and QR codes, computer games and forms of computer animation; modern developments: careers in video production, learning materials and QR codes that create mobile "living text".
	Unit 4 - Capstone Projects 44 pages Web site programming in HTML, Creating an Excel keystroke macro, An “apprentice” approach to becoming an "Excel hero", Basic Access database concepts and reporting, Beginning Java programming; Finale: Reflection assignment (formerly an essay), sample online final exam.

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