CS0 Survey (Mayfield)

These activities were developed by Chris Mayfield for a survey course. The LaTeX source is available at on GitHub at ChrisMayfield/cspogil/CS0. PDF builds are available upon request.

Contents

Activity	Topics
Introduction	hi-lo game, algorithms and complexity, fast vs easy
Bits and Bytes	logic gates, digital circuits, binary and hexadecimal
Program Execution	computer architecture and machine instructions
Operating Systems	screenshots, interaction with apps and hardware
Computer Networking	IP, DNS, bandwidth and latency, speed tests
Information Security	encryption, Caesar cipher, Vigenère cipher
Algorithms and Python	using IDLE, print, raw_input, guessing game
Programming Languages	Y86-64 assembly vs. Standard C vs Python
Software Engineering	software dev life cycle, waterfall vs. iterative
Data Structures	contiguous arrays, indexes, linked lists, pointers, null
Database Systems	select and project, Cartesian product and theta join
Artificial Intelligence	8-puzzle, tic-tac-toe, search trees, heuristics

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Field	Value
author	Chris Mayfield
title	Activities for CS0 Survey
url	https://github.com/…
month	August
year	2021