COMP 461 - History of Computing

(3 credits)
Prerequisite: COMP 206
History of Computing explores the development of the technologies that culminate in today’s computers. This includes early and experimental computers, minicomputers, telecommunications and the Internet, the rise of personal computers, historic persons and computing pioneers, early programming languages and operating systems, and primitive video gaming. Students will work with, program, and replicate physical examples and emulations of the actual technologies. Offered alternate years.