Introduction CompE160 to Programming
Lovegren
Spring 2006
Day 1 Course Introduction
General Website http://jason.sdsu.edu/compe160_spring_2007 Syllabus and Lecture Schedule Role Class background who has used computers for: word processing internet email programming in C programming in Basic programming in other what type of computer? IBM PC compatible Mac who has computer at home? who is a Freshman? who is a transfer student? what is your major? Computer Engineering EE other Brief History of Computing Industry 1950s First computers are built (Eniac ) Vacuum tubes Patchboards; machine language; assembler. 1960s 1970s Mainframe computers: IBM, CDC, Univac, RCA, Burroughs, GE; Transistors and integrated circuits (ICs) - SSI; Algol, Fortran, Cobol, Basic Proprietary OSs (IBM 360 ). Minicomputers: DEC, Data General, Hewlett Packard; MSI and LSI C language (Bell Labs - for systems programming) UNIX (Berkeley non-proprietary)
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1980s
ARPANET (individual computers connected by phone email) lines; Microprocessors: Intel 4004, 8008, 8080, 8086 First PCs: Apple, Altair, Osborne, Tandy, Word processors, spreadsheet (Visicalc) Relational databases Embedded computers IBM PC, Macintosh Microsoft DOS VLSI, FPGAs, ASICs LANs (Ethernet); Internet (telnet, ftp) Microsoft Windows C++, Visual Basic
1990s WWW - HTML, HTTP, browsers (Mosaic, Netscape, Internet Explorer) Java - Sun Microsystems IDEs (Visual Studio, Borland, Symantec, Code Warrior) 2000s Microsoft C# and Visual Studio.NET (2001, 2003, 2005) SoC (System on a Chip), SoPC (System on a Programmable Chip) For more detail and exact date...