Louis Taber
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CSC135
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Introduction to Computer Operations

©Louis Taber

Monday January 17, 2000

This document is the syllabus, lab assignments, attendance and grading policy, and most handouts used in Louis Taber's CSC135 class.

The hypertext version of this document contains many hyper links to other references.

I would like to thank Vanya Cooper, Cindy Dooling, the Computer Science Department at Pima Community College, West Campus, and many unnamed students for their help and assistance in getting the materials ready for my classes and helping my classes run smoothly.

This document is written in a version of LaTeX called HyperLaTeX written by Otfried Cheong. HyperLaTeX uses Leslie Lamport's LaTeX, a document preparation system, Donald E. Knuth's TeX, typesetting program, and the FSF emacs text editor.

A postscript version of this document is avaliable by ftp at:
ftp://phred.dcccd.edu/pub/ltaber/oper.ps. It may be older than the hypertext version.

This document is available under the FSF public use license. Please contact the author if you are interested.

Class calendar
PCC Course Bank Data
Class standing by student PIN

Name: Pin:
CSC135 CSC137 CSC225 CSC266

Links to sections.
  • 1 CSC135 Class information
  • 2 Syllabus
  • 2.1 Catalog Description
  • 2.2 Text Book
  • 2.3 Class content
  • 2.4 Lab Resources
  • 3 Attendance and Grading Policy
  • 3.1 Course grade
  • 3.2 Y Option
  • 3.3 Book reports
  • 3.4 In class short tests
  • 3.5 Attendance
  • 3.6 Labs
  • 3.7 Software License and Copyright Statement
  • 3.8 Scholastic Ethics
  • 3.9 Americans with Disabilites Act
  • 4 Labs
  • 4.1 Setup UNIX account
  • 4.2 Editor 1 - About Me
  • 4.3 Run an assembly program
  • 4.4 Fortran program
  • 4.5 Enter a PASCAL program
  • 4.6 Pascal program compile and run
  • 4.7 The "C" Language
  • 4.8 First Shell Script
  • 4.9 Internet
  • 4.10 VAX Command procedures #1
  • 4.11 VAX command procedure #2
  • 4.12 VAX Logical Names
  • 4.13 VAX Variables #1
  • 4.14 VAX Variables -- #2
  • 4.15 Editor - vi
  • 4.16 File Protection
  • 4.17 Subdirectories
  • 5 Class notes
  • 5.1 Day 1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Day 2 Computer introduction continued
  • 5.3 Questions about Memory 8/29/96
  • 5.4 Introduction to Software Development 9/3/96 and 9/5/96
  • 5.5 RISC and CISC
  • 5.6 Introduction to the Lab and the VAX
  • 5.7 Quiz 1
  • 5.8 Processors
  • 5.9 Sand to Circuit (Video)
  • 5.10 The KGB, the Compute, and Me a video
  • 5.11 Processor Architecture 9/24/96
  • 5.12 Memory
  • 5.13 Memory hierarchy
  • Reading List
  • References

  • Instructor: ltaber@pima.edu** My new Home on phRed** The Pima College Site** The Mad Dr. G.'s home page on phred.