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Lecture 8: 11-Mar-2008 (quick, personal summary) In lecture 8, we continued with logic circuits and talked about the abstraction that turned boolean logic into basic logic gates. We also talked about logic laws that can be used to simplify logic formulae
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Lecture 7: (quick, personal summary) In lecture 7, we start a new journey -- about how to built general purpose computers, or at least the basics of it. The journey starts with binary system, and its use to encode/store numbers, text, sound, pictures
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Tutorial 5: 21-Feb-2008; (quick, personal summary) Tutorial 5 is all about databases and query processing. I use it to illustrate the difference between declarative query (like SQL) and procedural query (as done via e-project, e-select, and e-join). Declarative
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Lecture 6: (quick, personal summary) In lecture 6, I wanted to start and finish covering Databases, but because we discussed the course project quite a bit, I could not finish everything I wanted to. Ended up having to finish the last 10 minutes during
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Lecture 5: (quick, personal summary) In lecture 5, I finished up on efficiency of algorithms -- re-iterated the idea of analyzing the dominant operation using the theta-notations. Then covered efficiency analysis of Pattern-Match algorithm, introduced
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