Section: Questions for Team

• YUCH! Is it too technical? Is it too waterred down?
• Definition of computer OK?
• I'm worried about analog vs. digital. Did we give it too much space? Did we define the terms in clear and useful ways?
• Do we need more or less on binary conversion?
• Is other bases discussion in review questions appropriate?
• Should we worry about other text encoding schemes (EBCDIC?)
• I know I glossed over round-off error. I thought going in much more detail would be more confusing than helpful.
• Machine language - HELP! I think this will be easier after we see Chris' virtual machine. I tried to describe a general level machine / assempler language, but again, I tried to avoid the details that would confuse more than inform.
• Notice that I left everything very theoretical here. I figured we could hit bits and bytes, RAM and ROM in the hardware chapter.
• Should I even mention assembler? or other programming languages? My inclination is not to, and just to refer back here when other classes need the ideas.
• I think (and hope) this will be the hardest chapter to write. The ideas are so abstract! I wonder how fully even some CS majors understand all these concepts! I hope we did them justice
• Is it relevant? I think we will keep referring back to this chapter throughout the entire curriculum. I don't want to say all this stuff just for its own sake. Did we pick topics that are truly useful in understanding what computing is?