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Learning Outcomes

Understand the fundamentals of computing device.
Understand the data representation for common data types.
Appreciate the idea of how computation can be expressed as digital logic function and realized as digital circuit.
Understand the instruction execution cycle.
Understand the program execution lifecycle (edit, link, load, execute).
Understand the role of the major components in a typical computer (CPU, Memory, I/O) and the interaction between them.

Teaching Modes

TopLectures - 3 hours a week
Tutorial - 1 hour a week
Lab - 1 hour a week

Preclusions

TopCS1104 or Students from Department of ECE

Top3-1-1-3-2

Workload Components : A-B-C-D-E
A: no. of lecture hours per week
B: no. of tutorial hours per week
C: no. of lab hours per week
D: no. of hours for projects, assignments, fieldwork etc per week
E: no. of hours for preparatory work by a student per week

Learning Outcomes

Prerequisites

Teaching Modes

Preclusions

Workload