Joseph Wyatt

www.jbwyatt.com     wyatt@clarion.edu     wyattwyatt@gmail.com

141 Becker Hall
814.393.2643

Computer Information Science (CIS) Department

CS Major     IS Major     CS & IS Minors

Clarion University:  www.clarion.edu

CIS Department: cis.clarion.edu

 Chair:     Susan Traynor
 Secretary: Nancy Harriger

 130 Becker Hall (campus map)

 Phone: 814.393.2442
 Fax: 814.393.2186

CIS Department

CIS is a department that offers two majors: (There is no "CIS major". )
     CS : BSCS (Computer Science)
     IS : BSIS (Information Systems)

Students graduate from our programs with a solid education and get very good
jobs with such outstanding  employers as Raytheon, E-Systems, Lockheed Martin,
IBM, Mellon Bank, America Online and EDS.

Many students prefer to work for smaller companies, school districts,
local governments and state governments.

 CS Major

Computer Science (CS): B.S. , 58 credits
Required:
   CIS 163 Intro to Programming & Algorithms I  (C++)
   CIS 244 Intro to Programming & Algorithms II (C++)
   CIS 253 Computer Org and Assembly Language
   CIS 254 Data Structures
   CIS 306 Object-Oriented Programming (Java)
   CIS 350 Computer Architecture
   CIS 355 Operating Systems
   CIS 356 Algorithm Analysis
   CIS 375 Software Engineering
   CIS 411 Systems Development Project
   CIS 460 Prog Languages & Theory of Computation
   MATH 140, 270, ECON 221, PHIL 311

12 credits of electives in CIS courses 300-level or above.


CS might best be described as preparing the students to become experts
in the making of the tools (software) that others use to solve problems. 

CS students study the programming and low-level aspects of the computer.
Courses include Data Structures, Computer Architecture, Software Engineering
and Operating Systems in addition to classes in C#, C++, Assembly and Java. 

IS Major
Information Systems (IS): B.S., 63 credits
Required:
   CIS 110 Intro to Computer Info Systems
   CIS 202 Event-Driven programming (VB)
   CIS 206 Intro to Java Programming (Java)
   CIS 217 Applications of Microcomputers
   CIS 301 Systems Analysis
   CIS 303 Local Area Networks
   CIS 317 Microcomputer Maintenance
   CIS 330 Advance Event-Driven Programming (VB)
   CIS 402 Data Base
   CIS 403 Data Communications
   CIS 411 Systems Development Project
   MATH 131, 232
   ECON 211, 212, 221;
   ACTG 251, 252; FIN 370, MGMT 320, MKTG 360

Nine credits of electives in CIS courses 300-level or above.


IS might best be described as preparing the student to become experts in
the use of the tool (the computer) as a key component used in complex systems
that solve problems in the real world. 

 IS is a business-oriented computing curriculum. IS students study the use
and programming of computers in a business environment. Courses include
Programming, Applications of Microcomputers, Data Communications, LAN,
Systems Analysis and Database Systems. Languages include C# & Java

emu8086

Visual Studio

Web Drive / Fire FTP

Notepad++

Mono

Computer Center

Objective 1

• Familiarize student with computer organization
• Basic hw issues : CPU, RAM, SS, I/O, cache, bus




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• Understand "computer" math: Base 2, Base 16, Base 10
• Example: 20d = 14h = 00010100b will be stored in a single byte (8 bits) in RAM and will be represented by 8 microscopic "switches" that are either on or off

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• How many things can be stored in 8 bits? 16? 32?
• How many bytes are needed to store 1000x1000 pixel image with 65,536 colors?
• How do you distinguish an ascii 'A' from the number, 65?
• When are addresses treated as data?
• What does the number 12AF mean? Why do we do write numbers like that?

Objective 2

• Learn to program is assembly

TITLE Add and Subtract, Version 2         (AddSub2.asm)
; This program adds and subtracts 32-bit integers
; and stores the sum in a variable.  Last update: 2/1/02
INCLUDE Irvine32.inc
.data
val1        dword  10000h  ;4 bytes of storage initialized
val2        dword  40000h
val3        dword  20000h
finalVal  dword  ?
.code
main PROC
	mov eax, val1		; start with 10000h
	add eax, val2		; add 40000h
	sub eax, val3		; subtract 20000h
	mov finalVal, eax	; store the result (30000h)
	call DumpRegs	; display the registers
	exit
main ENDP
END main
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Why Assembly?
Applications
Device drivers, Games, Embedded apps
Speed up apps (ex: write directly to I/O port vs. system call)
Understanding 
Understand program translation & execution
Understand HW
Understand SW / HW interaction
Understand high level programming / debug
Sophistication
Real computer scientist
See under the covers

note 8/24/07 (iphone cracked):

... Here how the bootrom check works; it reads from 0xA0000030 
0xA000A5A0 0xA0015C58 0xA0017370 and all these addresses must read as blank, 
or 0xFFFFFFFF. When you erase flash, it becoms 0xFFFFFFFF. But you can't 
erase those locations, because they are in the bootloader. So thats where 
the testpoint comes in. 

Pulling A17 high hardware OR's the address bus with 0x00040000(offset one 
because data bus is 16 bit) So the bootrom instead checks locations 
0xA0040030 0xA004A5A0 0xA0045C58 0xA0047370, which are in the main firmware 
and can be erased. Pretty genius :)
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so WE should see that address 0xA000A5A0 becomes 0xA004A5A0...