1. UIT2201: CS & IT Revolution Course Web-Site: (Spring 2009)
Lecturer: A/P Leong Hon Wai
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Homepage:
Contact:
Office: COM1, 04-31
Tel:
Dept of Computer Science, SOC
Consultation:
Office Hours: TBA (& by -appt)

2. UIT2201: CS & IT Revolution What this course is NOT YES, it’s TRUE.
Not a Practice-Oriented Course
Not to teach programming
Not to train a computer scientist/engineer
Not an IT literacy course
Not to teach IT/computer skills
Each faculty has its own already IT literacy course
YES, it’s TRUE.
You do NOT need background in computing.
However, you need to have
Open, Logical mind; Keen to learn
Basic IT skills (word processing)
Internet surfing, web-search, , etc

3. UIT2201: CS & IT Revolution What this course is about
Learn about fundamental ideas in CS & IT
Learn what drives CS & IT revolution
Not in great depth, but the key ideas…
With lots of examples and analogies
from anywhere and everywhere
From different discuplines
Textbook, Internet, newspapers,
Magazines, Journals, bus/MRT, anywhere
To view things from the CS&IT angle

4. UIT2201: CS & IT Revolution Learn how to leverage on IT
What’s possible, what’s not.
Develop an “IT-enabled mindset”
Be able to apply IT knowledge
Singapore Examples:
NLB Success Story
More recent eg: MOH
“If you know what is possible,
you can always find the people to do it.”

5. UIT2201: CS & IT Revolution Textbook: Lecture Materials:
Invitation to Computer Science, Java Version, (3rd edition), 2007 G. Michael Schneider & Judith L. Gersting
Chapter covered: (roughly)
Chapters 1-5, 7, 11, 13-15
Lecture Materials:
Powerpoint files
Related reading materials on course-site
Assigned reading materials (not so much)

6. UIT2201: Other fun things… Good jokes, fun jokes…
Designing your own web-pages…
It’s easy and FUN!
Contributing to UIT2201 module-blog
Hear what the instructor say…
And also have your own say…
Fun Project: (some past ones…)
Fun with Google Maps and Mashups
3D animated story board with Alice
Origami (is that related to IT?)

7. Organization of the Text into a Six-Layer Hierarchy*
07/16/96
Figure 1.9
Organization of the Text into a Six-Layer Hierarchy *

8. UIT2201: CS & IT Revolution Assessment:
Participation: 5%
Tutorials: 20% (about 10 sets)
Project: 15%
Quizzes: %+15% (closed book)
Final Exam: 30% (OPEN BOOK)
30-April (Wed) PM
Dates for Quizzes: (closed books)
06-Mar-09 (Fri) 7-8pm Quiz 1 (tentative)
10-Apr-09 (Fri) 7-8pm Quiz 2 (tentative)

9. UIT2201: CS & IT Revolution COURSE OUTLINE
Introduction to CS & IT Revolution (2L)
Algorithms (6L)
Database (2L)
Hardware (4L)
Network / Internet / WWW (2L)
Artificial Intelligence (2L)
Theory (2L)
e-Commerce, Security (2L)
Computers and Society (1L)
Past, Present and Future Trends (1L)

10. Some Underlying Principles
Recurring principles (themes) in CS & IT. They pop-up in multiple places…
Multiple Levels of Abstraction
from very high level to very low level
Divide and Conquer
also called “Decomposition”
One data, multiple views
Different “interfaces”
Defining set of primitives (building blocks)
Or basic-operations, mini langugages
Power of Iteration
doing something multiple times