CS 120 — Computational Thinking & Systems
Computation & Intelligent Systems · 4 units · Required core — everyone takes it
The Two Registers
- Catalog register: Computer organization and systems — logic gates, memory, processors, operating systems, networks.
- Teaching frame: How machines actually work, from logic gates up.
Outcomes Served
- Command of Intelligence
- Judgment
What This Course Is About
No magic anywhere in the stack: from a transistor to a logic gate to a processor to the page you are reading, every layer explained by building it.
The Made Thing
A working computer built upward from gates — simulated or breadboarded — that runs a program you wrote.
The Daily Path
One session per course day — each one designed to look easy and pull you in. This course is at syllabus stage — the daily path is not yet written, so it is not yet live.
- Day 01 — to be written
- Day 02 — to be written
- Day 03 — to be written
- Day 04 — to be written
- Day 05 — to be written
- Day 06 — to be written
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- Day 08 — to be written
- Day 09 — to be written
- Day 10 — to be written
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- Day 12 — to be written
- Day 13 — to be written
- Day 14 — to be written
- Day 15 — to be written
Every course here is built to one standard: it ends in a made thing you can show, and it ships day by day.