Charge

Project 1 is due at the beginning of class on Thursday, 1 February 2024.

Slides

The slides are here: Class 3: Apple is Lossy, but Microsoft has bigger Megabytes.

• 16 bits
• What’s a “MB”?
• Data Compression
• Why Binary?

Songs

Here are the different versions of [Wildest Dreams]:

• WAV file - 38,891,789 bytes
• High Qualify mp3 - 7,351,137 bytes
• 128 kbps mp3 - 3,528,681 bytes
• 64 kbps mp3 - 1,764,475 bytes
• 32 kbps mp3 - 882,477 bytes

I think everyone will hear something wrong with the smallest (32 kbps) version, but try the other ones to see if you can hear the difference between the 1.7 MB file and the larger files.

Charge

Project 1 is now posted, and is due at the beginning of class on Thursday, 1 February 2024.

Slides

The slides are here: Class 2: The Digital Abstraction.

• Beginning of Course Survey
• Analog/Digital
• Digital Music

Charge

Before 8:59pm Friday (Jan 19), read the syllabus and submit the Beginning of Course Survey.

Sometime next week (but earlier is better), contribute to the Computing in the News Week 1 discussion.

Slides

The slides are here: Class 1: Introduction.

• Course Objectives
• Why do we need to understand computing?
• Expectations
• What are we curious about
• Who am I and why am I teaching this course
• Introducting Digital vs. Analog

Welcome back! The semester starts this week and our first class meeting will be on Thursday, January 18 (11:00am in Olsson Hall 009).

A near-final version of the Syllabus is now posted. We’ll talk about the plan for the course in the first class Thursday, but feel free to reach out to me with any questions or concerns you have.

If you want to get an early start on the class, please fill out the Beginning of Course Survey (which is due at 6:59pm Friday).

Welcome to cs1010!

This is the public course website for UVA’s cs1010 Spring 2024 course.

Our first class meeting will be on Thursday, January 18 (11:00am in Olsson Hall 009).

More material will be posted here as the beginning of the semester approaches.