CS1Q Computer Systems Week 17 (6th February 2006)

Preparatory reading for Lectures 5 (Tuesday 7th February) and 6 (Thursday 9th February):

• CSI: Chapter 4, sections 4.1 and 4.2.
• The biography of George Boole can also be found on the book's website.
• The ethical issue Computers and Homeland Security can also be found on the book's website.

Lecture slideshows:

• Lecture 5 slideshow
• Lecture 6 slideshow

Lab:

• Assembly language programming. Here is the worksheet. Here are the solutions.

Key points:

• logical operations, truth tables, and circuit diagrams
• Boolean algebra
• systematic design of logic circuits