[KwartzLab] Computer Science from the Top and Bottom

[Stephen Paul Weber]

This email is going to people who have expressed interest in my CS course, 
and also to the public KWartzLab list.

I have completed construction of the curriculum, and have obtained 
permission to run it at the new KwartzLab location.

When: Wednesday Evenings starting at 19:00 EST, starting 2013-037 (6 February)
Where: 33 Kent St. (KWartzLab)
Cost: Free

If you have a laptop, it would be beneficial to bring it.  If your 
laptop runs Ubuntu you should install gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi and 
qemu-system.  Any install of an ARM assembler and bare-metal 
emulator should be able to work (or an Ubuntu Virtual Machine with 
the above packages installed).  I can help people out with such 
setup if help is wanted.

If you can't make a session, it may be beneficial to read the 
corrosponding notes, but they are of varying levels of accesibility.  
All notes are at <https://github.com/singpolyma/cs-top-and-bottom>.  
Reading the notes is by no means a requirement for participation.

Questions and constructive heckling are a very important part of any 
such class.  However, please be aware that Computer Science is an 
amazingly big topic area.  There are areas that deserve one or more 
courses of their own that I will not be covering, or will only by 
touching on gently, including: lexing and parsing, automata theory, 
physical contruction of machine internals, turing machines, cellular 
automata, Operating Systems, Artificial Intelligence, cryptography, 
mathematical logic, etc.  Additionally, I will not have time to 
cover in full detail even the topics I do broach.  That said, I will 
not refuse to answer any reasonable question (to which I know the 
answer) or allow any reasonable discussion.

While this particular offering of the material will be targetted at 
people already quite familiar with computing for reasons of 
timeline, etc, the material is fairly introductory / generic in 
nature, in that I attempt to cover primarily material of interest to 
all study of Computer Science.

This event is open to the public, but I would appreciate hearing 
ahead of time from anyone planning to come.

Hope to see you there.

-- 
Stephen Paul Weber, @singpolyma
See <http://singpolyma.netfor how I prefer to be contacted
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