ITEC 1011 M - York University

Introduction to Information Technologies

Instructor:

Luiz Marcio Cysneiros, Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Ross N601B
Office Hours: Tuesday 11 am - noon, Thursday 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm
phone: 416-736-2100 ext. 66010
email: AABBcysneiro@yorku.ca
(Please remove the anti-spam AABB for real address)

http://www.math.yorku.ca/~cysneiro/courses.htm

Final results can be downloaded here

Deferred Final Exam : May 20th - 3:00 to 4:30 P.M. Room 638 North Ross Building

Students to take this exam :

204310538

205740733

205356696

206271316

204823910

205648084

If you are not listed I didn't get your Deferred Standing Agreement, thus you should give it to me before thrusday may 15th.

Note 1 : Midterm/Assignments marks won't be given by email.

Note 2 : Comments about Final structure will be made in class at a convenient time. emails about it will be ignored

Note 3 : For those that can not come to my office hours the TA (Janice FU) will be available during LAB hours for working with you.

Note 4 : This Friday, as well as next friday, operating systems will be tackled during LAB hours

Note 5 : This Friday, April 11th, Janice will be at the LAB between 1:30 and 3:30 for working on any doubts you have for the Final.

Note 6 : All Assignments + midterm are available in a box outside my office

Final Exam : Saturday, April 26th 7:00 P.M. at Tait McKenzie Student Fieldhouse (Both Sides)

Chapter 1 to 14 (Except 5, 10, 11 and 12)_

Midterm : Answers here

Assignments

Assignments should be dropped at Ross Building 5th Floor North. There is one specific dropping box for this course

Assignment 3

Assignment 3 is due March 27th 11:59 P.M. Download it here. Groups of two students are allowed.

P.S. Assignment has to be handled both printed (using the usual drop box) and electronically (sending by email to me). Mention in the email the section to which you belong.

Question 3 - Tip : Remember that the instruction is fetched one byte at a time, thus if the instruction is 2 bytes long you need to have 2 fetches for only them execute the instruction.

Answers for Assignment 3 can be found here

Assignment 2

Assignment 1 is Due Feb 12th 11:59 A.M. Download it here. Groups of two students allowed.

Doubt on question 8. What is the negative difference between two number ?

Subtract the first number from the second
Test the result
If result is negative - print out the answer
If result is positive - the subtraction is performed in the
other order and result is printed out.

Assignment 1

Assignment 1 is Due Jan 29th 11:59 A.M. Download it here. Groups of two students allowed.

Doubts :

Converting from Hex to Octal or vice versa has to be made directly using binary as intermediary step. You can not convert to decimal as an intermediary step

Question 9C - You have to convert from hex to binary and then to octal to get the result in octal

Question 9 - Results are in binary, hexadecimal and octal base respectively

Question 4 - Disregard the comment for showing the decimal alone. You have to show the value of the TAB key using binary, hexadecimal and decimal bases

Question 3 - There are two questions in one. First Why humans and computers use number
systems for and second which number system humans use and which one
computers use

Textbook:

Irv Englander: The Architecture of Computer Hardware and Systems Software: An Information Technology Approach, John Wiley & Sons, 2nd Edition, 2000 (ISBN: 0-471-36206-3)

Course Description:

This course introduces the basic concepts of contemporary information technologies involving computers, networks, and telecommunications, that are commonly used to handle information flows, processing, and storage in typical organizations. Both hardware and software technologies are covered. Emphasis is on the uses of components as "black boxes": their external behavioral capabilities and use, rather than their internal construction. Assignments will involve issues of comparing, choosing among, and combining information technology components to solve particular information problems.

Topics include:

CPU architecture: memory, registers, addressing, busses, instruction set
Multi-processor systems
Peripheral devices
Operating systems
File systems
Basic network components and topologies
Digital audio and video
Database management systems

Course Evaluation:

Final exam (closed book) - 50%
Midterm exam (closed book) - 35%
Assignments (3 assignments - each worth 5%) - 15%

Late Policy:

Late assignments will be accepted but they will be facing a 15% penalty for each day after due day. Hence, one day later means 85% is your maximum, 2 days means 70% is your maximum and so on. Saturday and Sunday count also.

Assignments later than 1 week will not be accepted and they will receive a mark of zero. In exceptional cases (for example, for medical reasons) the weight of that assignment will be added to the weight of the final exam.

Make-up tests will NOT be provided. If a student misses a test for medical reasons the test weight will be added to the weight of the final exam.

Midterm Exam: Feb 12th, from 2:30 to 4:15 Chapter 1 to 6 except 5

If you are not officially enrolled (name on the class list) you can not do the exam !

Bring Photo ID

Lectures:

Wednesday - 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM
First lecture: Jan 9, 2003

Lab hours:

The lab is open daily

TA - Teaching Assistant

Danicic

Tentative Schedule:

Week 1: chapter 2 (Number Systems)
Week 2: chapter 2 (Computer Systems)
Week 3: chapter 3 and 4 (Data Format)
Week 4 :chapter 6 (Little Man Computer)
Week 5 : Chapter 6 continues
Week 6: Midterm
Week 7: chapter 7 (CPU and Memory)
Week 8: chapter 7 continues
Week 9: chapter 8 (Input/Output)
Week 10: chapter 9 (Peripherals)
Week 11: chapter 9 continues

Tentative Lectures

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