CMPS 002 - Computer Literacy

Prof. Paulo Franca

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Classes

Class Syllabus

Grading Policy

Labs

• Assignments
• Schedule

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• enter system
• get attendance
• submit work
• take lab quiz
• check scores

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Links

• UC Santa Cruz
• School of Engineering
• ACM
• IEEE

Staff only

Datacare   Ahshay

OS - Operating System

• Hides many hardware details
• most applications communicate not with Hardware but with OS
• provides communications with peripherals
• provides timeshare
• manage resources - memory especially
• User Interface - mac / win95 - part of the OS that applications use thus uniform
• Utility programs
  • maintaining system
  • finding out about the system

Layers

• Application Application
• OS / UI
• Hardware