Louis Taber
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CIS135
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Introduction to Computer Systems

©Louis Taber

January 5, 2001

This document is the syllabus, lab assignments, attendance and grading policy, and most handouts used in Louis Taber's CIS135 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://lt.tucson.az.us/pub/oper.ps. It may be older than the hypertext version.

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

Class calendar
PCC Course Bank Data
Links to sections.

  • 1 CIS135 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 Extra Credit
  • 3.6 Attendance
  • 3.7 Labs
  • 3.8 Software License and Copyright Statement
  • 3.9 Scholastic Ethics
  • 3.10 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 Shell Script #2
  • 4.10 Internet
  • 4.11 Editor - vi
  • 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 at GeoApps in Tucson ** The Pima College Site ** The Mad Dr. G.'s home page on phred.