Week 8 – Computation

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Lecture (Monday, May 16th) 👨‍🏫

• blank slides 😶
• annotated slides 😊
• recording 🎥

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Readings 📖

• Computer History Museum, The Engines
• YouTube: Log Tables - Numberphile
• Two-Bit History, What Did Ada Lovelace’s Program Actually Do?

Optional:

• Copeland, Alan Turing: The codebreaker who saved “millions of lives”
• YouTube: Babbage’s Difference Engine No. 2, Part 1: The method of finite differences: if you’d like a refresher on the method of finite differences (especially for Question 1 on the homework)
• Computer Hope, When was the first computer invented?: good to skim if you’d like a comprehensive overview of the development of computers

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Homework 8 (due Sunday, May 22nd at 11:59PM) 📝

Click here to access the homework on DataHub.

Click here to access the solutions.