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My early course lectures also drew heavily on the Williams book, and on articles from the Annals of the History of Computing.
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<div class="">In the first couple of years I used Stan Augarten’s nicely illustrated large-format book Bit by Bit as a textbook. It’s journalistic history, with flaws and misunderstandings, but accessible for undergrads.</div>
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<div class="">The Campbell-Kelly/Aspray/Yost/Ensmenger text has been immensely valuable. I’ve been using that as the main textbook for the last 15 years now.</div>
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<div class="">On Jan 29, 2018, at 09:13, Brian L. Stuart <<a href="mailto:blstuart@bellsouth.net" class="">blstuart@bellsouth.net</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="">I can speak to the Rhodes College course since that one was<br class="">
mine. We only ran it once, but I thought it was a lot of fun.<br class="">
I can probably find my old syllabus if it would help, but there<br class="">
wasn't a huge amount of detail in it. Like the Purdue course<br class="">
I mentioned in another message, I used Williams book as<br class="">
my primary text.<br class="">
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More recently, I've run a similar course here at Drexel University.<br class="">
I'm hoping to eventually make that one a regular offering.<br class="">
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In both cases, the the primary focus was on the hardware,<br class="">
architecture, and similar technical factors. Software got<br class="">
about 10-20% of the time, and a similar amount of time<br class="">
was devoted to the development of theory. The cultural/<br class="">
societal aspects only really appeared in the context of my<br class="">
lectures as background to the technical developments. For<br class="">
the more recent version, the assignments that I found the<br class="">
most fun to assign were writing a little bit of PDP-8 machine<br class="">
code (and I let them run it on an 8/M I've restored), "writing"<br class="">
a simple task on the ENIAC which they ran on my simulator,<br class="">
and writing a simulator for some early machine, with the<br class="">
Manchester Baby probably being the most popular choice.<br class="">
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BLS<br class="">
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On Mon, 1/29/18, Janet Abbate <<a href="mailto:abbate@vt.edu" class="">abbate@vt.edu</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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Also, he has a website last updated in 1998 (<a href="http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/courses.html" class="">http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/courses.html</a>)<br class="">
that lists these courses at various universities:<br class="">
- University of Warwick CS330: History of Computing<br class="">
- University of Calgary, CPSC 509<br class="">
- American University, CSIS 64.550 History of Computing <br class="">
- Stanford University STS 161 -- History of Computers.<br class="">
- Virginia Tech, CS 3604 Professionalism in Computing (contains a<br class="">
section on history). [J.A.N.’s own course]<br class="">
- Rhodes College, CS 465: Topics in Computer Science Computer<br class="">
History<br class="">
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Paul N. Edwards<br class="">
William J. Perry Fellow in International Security<br class="">
<a href="http://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/" class="">Center for International Security and Cooperation</a><br class="">
Stanford University<br class="">
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University of Michigan<br class="">
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