Computer Science

Novus Ordo Computorum

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University of Maine at Augusta

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Table of Contents
Assignment #1  Assignment #2  Assignment #3 
Assignment #4  Practical Examination  Assignment #5 
Assignment #6  Assignment #7  Assignment #8 
Assignment #9  Term Paper    
Homework Assignment 1 -- Excuseme.txt -- ASCII format file -- Due 9 June 2003

Excuseme.txt

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Homework Assignment 2 -- Due 16 June 2003

A program to test a number for divisibility by 2 -- ASCII format file

Parity.txt

An algorithm to test a natural number for primeness -- ASCII format file

Primealg.txt

Read the following file to learn the properties of the programs listed below

Pinfo.txt

BASIC Language Prime Test Programs

PrimeGW.txt     PrimeQB.txt      Psqrlist.txt     Primesli.txt

A C++ Language Prime Test Program

Primecpp.txt

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Homework Assignment 3 -- Due 23 June 2003

A file explaining sorting, with four elementary sorting algorithms -- ASCII format file

Sorts.txt

A Pascal program showing four elementary sorting methods -- ASCII format file

Elemsort.txt

The above Pascal program in a Windows OS executable file
It can be downloaded and run on your computer, or run from this site

Elemsort.exe

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Homework Assignment 4 -- Due 30 June 2003

AE Labs (4.1 - base for next two), 4.2 and 4.3

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Practical Exam -- Due 7 July 2003

CIS101 Summer 2003 Practical Exam

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Homework Assignment 5 -- Due 7 July 2003

AE Labs 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 & 4.4

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Homework Assignment 6 -- Due 14 July 2003

AE Labs 4.5 & 4.6, with added data, a table and site navigation using frames.
The internal navigation links within the page have been removed.

AE Labs 4.5 & 4.6

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Homework Assignment 7 -- Due 21 July 2003 -- Some JavaScript.

Author attribution is given in the html files.

The clock near the top of the site, below 'Go Moose!', is a JavaScript program.
It is embedded within the main web site page. The script is in the HEAD, the
function call in the BODY. See if you can find it.

The color selection buttons below the clock are displayed and activated using JavaScript.

The JavaScript program below is on a separate page and contains a calculator application.

Calculator program

This is jscript4.htm rewritten, as jsprime.htm, with permission from Prof. Minkoff.
I have revised the JavaScript code to speed up the program.
Please view the source for numbers you can use to test the program.
Tested primes can have 15 exact digits (plus a little more).
It is also stored on a separate page.

JavaScript Prime Calculator

The page update information at the bottom of this site, is also a JavaScript Program,
included in Prof. Minkoff's prototype, that was used to create this site.

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Homework Assignment 8 -- Due 4 August 2003

PIPPIN Assembly Language Code

The files in the left hand column explain the programs and give the code with comments.
Instructions for running the programs are also contained in those files.
The files in the right hand column are downloadable CPUSim.dat files that run in CPUSim.
To download the CPUSim data files to your computer, right-click on the link, and then save
to your hard drive or floppy drive. They can then be loaded into the CPUSimulator and run.


Parity Program Explanation & Code  parity.dat Program File for use with CPUSim 
Prime Program Explanation & Code  primcomp.dat Program File for use with CPUSim 
3-Sort Program Explanation & Code  sort3.dat Program File for use with CPUSim 
4-Sort Program Explanation & Code  sort4.dat Program File for use with CPUSim 

Here is a half adder for use with the logic simulator. Download like the PIPPIN files above.

Half Adder Program Explanation & Code  halfadd.dat Program File for use with LogicSim 

And if you were wondering, I do have a life. I just like this stuff!

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Homework Assignment 9 -- Due 18 August 2003 -- AEOnline Lab 9.3 -- Haiku.

The wind that blows
Ask them, which leaf on the tree
Will be the next to go.
--- Kyoshi Takahama

Breeze in a breeze
The liquid flower on a waterfall
Summer Rain.
--- Modified AEOnline Haiku Generator

A playful liquid sea
On a hidden wind
The breeze drifts.
--- Original AEOnline Haiku Generator

And the winner is -- Kyohsi Takahama
Selector's comment -- "Makes more sense than the other two."

In this case, the selector was able to recocognize human creation from computer generation.

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Term Paper -- Due 24 August 2003

Networked Parallel Processing

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An unabashed display of a photo of Mt. Katahdin from my daughter and son-in-laws business page

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