A Brief History of Computing
in CS 101
The importance of computing in computer science
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