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An overview of programming and software development.

How we get from transistors through to logic gates to ALUs and memory to the stored program and the fetch execute cycle through to machine code and high level languages. Inspired by Tanenbaum's approach in "Structured Computer Organozation"

What is Computer Science about?

Crowdsourcing. Social Machines. Human computation. Co-construction Made Real

High-level introduction for web science students, rather than for computer science students.

Lecture notes and readings on networking: the telegraph, the internet and the OSI model.

Slides based on Brookshear, augmented with a lot of simple material to encourage the students to understand binary numbers!

A look at the Southampton Nanfabrication Centre where electro-photonic research is carried out and the AMD company's industrial processes for creating commercial quantities of silicon computing devices.

Looking at good examples of public presentations

Powerpoint describing good educational eactivities