The Architecture of Computer Hardware and Systems Software: An Information Technology Approach
ITEC-1000
Summer 2006
York University


Course Content (for the second edition book)

Wk# Days Topic Reading Due
1 2 May
  		What is the Computer System?
Components of the Computer System 		Ch 1.0-1.4
  		 
2 9 May
  		Number Systems
  		Ch 2.0-2.8
  		 
3 16 May
  		Data Formats & Representing Integer Data
Complement Representation  		Ch 3.0-3.6 & 4.0-4.8
  		 
4 23 May
  		The Little Man Compuer
  		Ch 6.0-6.3
  		 
 
  25  May Assignment 1 is due at 12:00pm noon!    A1
5 30 May Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences 2006! Enjoy!   
6 6  June
  		Some Advance Topics on LMC
  		Ch 6.4-6.6
  		 
 7 13  June The CPU and Memory
Advanced Topics on CPU & Memory  		Ch 7.0-7.3
Ch 7.4-7.8   		 
8 20 June
  		Input/Output
Interrupt & DMA 		Ch 8.0-8.6
  		 
  23 June Assignment 2 is due at 12:00pm noon!    A2
9 27 June Midterm Exam from 6pm to 9pm at TEL 0001 Ch 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6  
10 4 July
  		Computer Peripherals
Advanced topics on Computer Peripherals 		Ch 9.0-9.3
Ch 9.4-9.8  		 
11 11 July
  		Question Answering about A1, A2 and Midterm
A1 and A2  
Midterm paper   		 
12 18 July
  		What is an Operating System?
Basic Network Components  		Ch 13.0-13.5
Ch 14   		 
 
13 25 July
  		Process and Thread
Some Advance Topics   		Ch 16.0-16.6
Ch 16.9 and 16.10       		 
14 1 August
Conclusions    
  2 August Assignment 3 is due at 12:00pm noon!    A3
15   4 August Classes are over!
16   16 August Final Exam from 7pm to 10pm   And so it came to pass. Everything!