CSC 171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Central Processing Unit, Input Device, Machine Code
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Grade: 30% labs, 12% quizzes from presentation and reading, midterm 25%, nal project 30% Interactive entertainment: vague and exible de nition (a choose your own adventure book might be considered as an example, in this class: a kind of computational input and interface input device (e. g. keyboard, mouse, camera, etc) Programs are other things that are telling the system what to do. How does the program do any work: the program is essentially the set of instructions for the cpu. when it leaves your hands it is made into some language that the cpu can understand. The only language cpu can really understand is machine language", a binary language of. / how does the computer know that when you move your mouse the cursor on the screen moves: the necessary process here is called compiling. compiling changes human text to machine code. To-do by thursday class: read syllabus carefully and install greenfoot.
