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93171 CSC 2060N -- Computer Organization -- Fall 2013
Online Course
Quiz 10

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This is the weekly quiz for 19 November 2013 for the CSC 2060 course. Please do this quiz after you have completed the rest of assignment 10. It should take between one half hour and 2 1/2 hours to complete if you are well prepared, longer if not.

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  1. By now you are supposed to have notes in your blog about the first 31 of Prof. Raman's lectures. Give the URLs for your blog entries for lectures 29, 30 and 31. No extra credit, but you really do have to do it.

  2. Describe your proposed porfolio project in detail and what progress you have made in the past week, what problems you are encountering, and your projected date for completion.

  3. You have completed the text book and have almost completed the video lectures. Carefully consider what impact, if any, a clearer understanding of computer hardware may have on your approach to programming computers.

  4. For most applications these days, computers are so fast that careful hardware-orientated hand optimization of code does not seem worthwhile. There are, however, some applications for which the speed of hardware is a critical bottleneck. Find an example and explain in detail.

  5. Computers are becoming important components of many devices. Consider yourself as a device. Write an essay on the applicability of computers useful component of human beings.

  6. Summarize the three most important things you learned from Prof. Raman's 29th lecture. Summarize the three most important things you learned from Prof. Raman's 30th lecture. Summarize the three most important things you learned from Prof. Raman's 31st lecture.

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Updated 13 August 2013.