EECS 1520 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Web 2.0, User Friendly, Mental Model

• School: York University
• Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Course: EECS 1520
• Professor: pkashiya

Document Summary

For exercises 11-23, match the hardware listed to the appropriate generation: first, second, third, fourth, fifth, circuit boards, transistor, magnetic core memory, card input/output, parallel computing. For exercises 24-38, match the software or software concepts listed to the appropriate generation: first, second, third, fourth, fifth, magnetic drum, magnetic tape drives. C: personal computer, vacuum tube, large scale integration, magnetic disc, networking, assemblers, fortran, operating systems, structured programming. D: time sharing, html (for web, loaders, spreadsheets, word processors, lisp, pc-dos. E: spss, c+, loaders/linkers bundled into operating system. The original user was the programmer who had a problem to solve. By the 1970s, application programs were being written such that non-programmers could use them to solve problems. It ushered in the world of user-friendly browsers such as netscape, internet explorer, and firefox: discuss the browser wars. Netscape navigator and internet explorer were the big competing user-friendly browsers.