University of California, Santa Cruz
Board of Studies in Computer Engineering
Personal Computer Concepts: Software and Hardware
General Information and Syllabus
CMPE-003
Spring 2006
MWF: 9:30am – 10:40am
Class room: Media Theater M110
Lab room: BE-109
Instructor: Cyrus Bazeghi
E-mail: cyrus@soe.ucsc.edu
Office: E2-319
Office Hours: MWF 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm and by arrangement
Office Number: (831) 459-2217
TAs: John Connors (jconnors@soe.ucsc.edu) and Colin Tracy (ctracey@ucsc.edu)
Important Dates
Final Exam:
Tuesday, June 13th, 7:30pm –10:30pm
Midterm Exam: Monday, May 8th
Holiday:
Monday, May 29th
Required text book
“Computer Confluence: Tomorrow’s Technology and You” by Beekman & Quinn, Pearson Prentice Hall.
Available at BayTree and at SlugBooks. ISBN: 0-13-152531-X
WWW site and Newsgroup
Website: http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/classes/cmpe003/Spring06/
Check this site often as this is where any assignments, handouts, lecture notes, and test solutions will be
posted.
Discussion forum: http://apps.soe.ucsc.edu/fora/
Read the discussion forum often as announcements will be made there. Feel free to use the forum to chat
with other students and to discuss the course.
Course Description
This course serves as an introduction to computing concepts. The course is designed to take a student
from a beginning level and to look at the major concepts concerning computers including access and
using networks, hardware and software information, and security and reliability concerns. Provides an
introduction to computers. Personal computing is emphasized, and students are introduced to word
processing, spreadsheets, database management, graphics, and programming. Covers fundamentals of
computing and current and future uses of computer technology, PC hardware, Windows operating system,
applications softwar