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From SENATE COMMITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE 

STUDI ES 

Date...

JUNE18, 1975 

MOTION: 

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"That Senate approve the renumbering of CMPT 100-3 

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to GMPT 105-3, as set forth in S.75-10l." 

Note: If this proposal is approved, cMPT 100-3 will be discontinued. 

The reference in the calendar to CIIPT 100-3 as prerequisite or 

for usability will be replaced by reference to CMPT 105-3. 

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SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

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MEMORANDUM

SENATE 

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ct RENUMBERING OF CMPT 100-3 TO 

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From

SENATE COMMITTEE ON UNDERGRADUATE 

STUDIES 

Date...

JUNE 18, 1975 

At its meeting of May 20, 1975 the Senate Committee on Undergraduate 

Studies considered the attached proposal to change the number of CMPT 100-3 

to CNPT 105-3. It should be noted that, if this proposal is approved, CMPT 

100-3 will be discontinued. The reference in the calendar to CMPT 100-3 as 

prerequisite or for usability will be replaced by reference to CMPT 105-3. 

This proposal is forwarded to Senate with the Committee's recoin- 

mendation that it be approved. 

SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

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MEMORANDUM

.................,..Mr

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Secretary.. ......... ....

From ... . ... ?

J. Blancile

t,. Secretary ,

....................Senate. cornrnitteeonUnd..gradu.a e

Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies

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Undergraduate Curriculum Committee.

Subject

..............Computing Science

Attached is a proposal to change the course number of

Cmpt. 100-3 to Cmpt. 105-3. This number change was approved by the

Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies Undergraduate Curriculum Committee at

its meeting of April 16/75.

Would you

lease place this item on the agenda of the

Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies.

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JJW: ek

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SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

MEMORANDUM

,Mrs. J. Blanchet , Secretary 

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From

Dr. J.J. Weinkam 

Faculty of Interdisciplinary 

Studies Curriculum Committ ee ? 

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? Computing Science Program 

Subject

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Date...

February 

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17.1975 

Would you please place the following item on the Agenda for the 

next meeting of the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies Curriculum Committee. 

At its meeting of January 27, 1975, the Computing Science Faculty 

discussed the 100 level courses and decided to request that the course 

CMPT 100 be re-numbered CMPT 105. The rationale for this 

proposed change 

is that students seeking to take 

just one computing course frequently select 

CMPT 100 because it is the lowest numbered 100 level course. As a matter 

of fact, CMPT 100 is a very basic course and is essential for all students 

who wish to go on in computing. However, C11PT 203 also is required for all 

students who go on to take other courses in computing, so a student who takes 

CMPT 103 and later changes his mind and wishes to go on will have lost nothing. 

On the other hand, the vast majority of students who wish to take only a 

single course in Lomputing should probably select either CMPT 103 or CMPT 001. 

Our experience has been that many students do not seek advice but rather 

register for the lowest numbered 100 level course. 

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This leads to a great 

deal 

of dropping and adding and confusion which this proposed 

change should 

help to reduce. 

JJW: ek 

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SENATE COMMITTEE ON U DERCI<Ar)nATE STUDIES

NEW COURSE PROPOSAL FORM

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Calendar Information ? 

Department: 

COMPUTING ScIENcJ' 

•kbbreviation Code: 

CMPT 

Course Number: 

105

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Credit Hours: 

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3

Vector: 

3-1-0 

Title of Course: 

INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTING 

Calendar Description of Course: 

This course introduces the fundamental concepts and procedures by which problems 

are defined, described, and implemented on computing machines. 

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The students? 

learn principles of algorithms and their implementation through computer com- 

patible languages. ? 

CMPT 105 

(formerly CMPT 100-3) is a prerequisite to most courses 

Nature of Course 

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LECTURE/TUTORIAL 

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in Computing Science 

Prerequisites (or special instructions): 

Students 

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with credit for 

CMPT 100-3 may not take this course for further credit. 

What course (courses), if any, is .eing dropped from the calendar if this course is 

approved: 

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CMPT 100-3 

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2.

Scheduling 

How frequently will the course be offered? 

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Every semester 

Semester in which the course will first be offered? 

Which of your present faculty would be available to make the proposed offering 

possible? 

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All

faculty 

• Objectives _of the Course 

a)

The objective of L]is course is to introduce the student to the basic concepts and 

techniques through which problems may be solved by machine and 

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to the funda- 

mental role played by languages and the statement of problems and their solution 

by machine. 

b)

See attached. 

c)

This course does not overlap any e'istipg coure. 

4.

BudgetaryandSpaceRequirements çfor inrormar.ion oniy) 

What additional resources will be required in the following areas: 

Faculty ? 

NONE 

Staff 

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NONE 

Library ? 

NONE 

Audio Visual 

NONE 

Space ? 

NONE 

Equipment ? 

NONE 

5.

Approval 

Date: 

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DepirLnt Chairman 

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Dean ? 

Chairman, SCUS 

SCUS 73-34b:- (When completing this form, for instructions see Memorandum SCUS 73-34n. 

Attach course outline). 

Syllabus for the Basic Core Course in Computing Science:?

INTRODUCTION TO CONCEPTS AND PROCEDURES - CMPT 105-3

(3-1-0)

This course introduces the student to the concepts and techniques through which 

computers may be made to implement procedures and solve problems. 

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The student 

learns increasingly powerful languages for a Succession of progressively complex 

machines that enable him to solve more and more sophisticated problems. 

The sequence of machines and languages for specifying procedures for them. are 

taught with the aid of special simulators that have been implemented on the 

Simon Fraser computer. 

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The historical growth of concepts relevant to comput- 

ing is included whenever possible. 

Course topics include 

1.

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Problem solving. 

Flowcharting: The most basic of computing machines - Turing 

machines. 

3.

Organizational concepts of modern computers. 

4.

Notation for representing alphabetic, numeric, and other 

characters in a form that can be handled by automatic devices. 

5.

Implementing programs using a prototype machine language. 

6.

Algorithms and problem solving logic. 

7.

Fundamental concepts surrounding the construction and use of 

assemblers machine language as the bas.s. A number of prob- 

lems are solved using a simulated symbolic assembler. 

8.

The elements of high level languages. 

9.

Description of hardware features of modern computers and of 

related software that makes possible the implementation of 

processing aims. 

Text: ?

Sterling, T.D., Weinkam, J.J., and Pollack, S.V., Universal 

Syllabus: Introduction to Computing Science, 1975. 