Lecture 1 Objectives
At the end of today's class you should
KNOW:
- Where to find course information for CS 2011
- That a complex computer system is best understood as a hierarchy of
abstractions (Figure 1.6 in text)
- How to convert unsigned integers between decimal, binary, and hexadecimal
BE ABLE TO:
- List the levels of abstraction of a modern computer system and describe how information is
represented at each level
- Convert an unsigned integer from one numbering system to another
Sample Exam Question:
Convert
- 67 decimal to binary
- 10111110 binary to hexadecimal
- 10111110 binary to decimal
- ACE hexadecimal to decimal