Definition: an algorithm is a finite sequence of unambiguous and effectively computable instructions that produce some intended result.

A handful of important topics covered in the following slides:

• History of Computing (from punched cards to computer memory)
• Abstraction
• High-level Programming
• von Neumann Architecture (ALU, Memory [RAM, SAM, DRAM], CPU [Fetch, Decode, Execute])
• Turing Machines
• Moore’s Law

Read the lecture notes on Combinational Logic Circuits and complete the following.

We understand how to convert our real-world (numbers, text, images) into binary, but how does a computer understand binary?

Read the lecture notes on Color & Image Encoding and complete the four exercises.