CS101 Lecture 2

G. Sivakumar
Computer Science Department
IIT Bombay
siva@cse.iitb.ernet.in
http://www.cse.iitb.ernet.in/$\sim$siva

Thu, July 27, 2000

Plan for Lecture 2

• Jokes anyone?
• Course Mechanism (ctd.)
• Puzzles from Lecture 1
• What is a computer?
  • Hardware
  • System Software
  • Application Software
• What is programming?
  • Representing the problem (Data Structures)
  • Algorithmic Problem Solving (Control Structures)