Bridges To Computing

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Biomedical Computing

This course is an Introduction to Computer Science, and is equivalent to the lower-tier Core CC 3.12 (covers basically the same material, gives the same number of credits, and counts for your Core requirement in CIS or math). We will cover the basics of computer hardware and software, and teach you a little programming. The course is one of a number of "flavored" offerings of this material, with the flavor being provided by the context (meaning the kind of examples and homework exercises). This particualr section will have a flavor of biomedical and biologically-inspired computing. Thus our context will include topics like genome sequence analysis, electronic patient records and artificial life.

Professor:

Simon Parsons

Email:

parsons@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu

Textbooks

A Balanced Introduction to Computer Science , By David Reed, (paperback) Prentice Hall , ISBN : 013046709X

Lectures

Weeks	Topic	Notes
Unit A	Introduction to computers and networks	Lecture A2 Lecture A3
unit B	Algorithms and Computer Languages	Lecture B1 Lecture B3
Unit C	Data Representation and Storage	Lecture C1 Lecture C4
Unit D	Event-Driven Programming
Unit E	Programmer Defined Functions	Lecture E2 Lecture E4
Unit F	Security, Privacy, and Encryption	Lecture F3
Unit G	Solvability and Feasibility	Lecture G3