Wikipedia:India Education Program/Courses/Fall 2011/Computer Organization and Advanced Microprocessing

Course Description
Computer Organisation and Advanced Microprocessors (COAM) is a course for the third year (Fifth semester) undergraduate students of Department of Electronics and Telecommunication at College of Engineering, Pune (COEP.

This is an advanced course in the domain of Electronics Engineering. Students learn Architecture and Organisation of different Microprocessors's.

= Examination Scheme = The Wikipedia Article will be evaluated and will account for the 20 Marks of Internal Assessment for the Computer Organization and Advanced Microprocessors Practicals.

= Assignments Overview = The assignments shall be writing articles based on the course contents. The title or contents of the article for assignment shall be finalized in consultation with Course Instructor. Each assignment should be separate article. The large size articles/contributions can be submitted into two parts as assignments. The submission of these assignments will be on Wikipedia.

Selection of Article and Writing
ALL THE STUDENTS MUST CREATE THEIR USER NAMES & ARTICLE NAME BY 30th, AUG. 2011 till 5.00 p.m  THE STUDENTS WHO WILL NOT FOLLOW THE DEADLINES WILL BE PENALISED !!!

First select the topics that interest you from the course contents. Search these selected contents on Wikipedia. If you find the displayed Wikipedia article needs to be added/updated or there is not a article then you choose this topic for assignment(s).

August 17th, 2011

 * Overview of the course
 * Introduction to the Wikipedia part of the course.
 * Introduction to "Why Wikipedia" by the Peter James.
 * HANDOUT: "Welcome to Wikipedia" brochure
 * Campus Ambassadors introduce Wikipedia
 * Post your username to the students section of this page
 * Fill out this form


 * How to edit Wikipedia
 * Tips on creating good Wikipedia Pages

August 30th, 2011

 * Make first edits to your assigned pages.
 * Get your Wikipedia page finalized by the instructor and begin expanding the assigned page with lot of content added to it

Sept 05th, 2011

 * Initial study on the topic assigned.
 * Discuss your updates with the Mentor/Instructor.

September 12th, 2011

 * Detailed study of the topic assigned.
 * Review Meeting involving all participants.
 * Introduction to Wikipedia Sandboxes.
 * Write a summary of your changes in your sandbox.

October 31st, 2011

 * Finalize the changes to your Wikipedia Page. Mention the last edit on this page (deadline: OCT 31st 2011, 6 pm)
 * This is the schedule for the assignment

= Instructions for the students =

For creating a account use this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page then click on login/create account then create one.

Also fill the form under the date 17th august 2011

The deadline for writing the initial phase of the article is 23rd Sept 2011. 10 Marks will be evaluated at this stage .Students who are not following the deadline will be penalised with a deduction of 5 marks

Update this page with listing of your pair in the last section. Also list the page assigned to you and the name of your mentor campus ambassador. On your last edit, update the last edit link as well.

= Some helpful resources =
 * 1) Go to the Wikipedia main page and have a look at all the features of Wikipedia.
 * 2) To know the difference between an encyclopedia and an essay look at section 2.2 of this article: What Wikipedia Is Not

= Text Books =
 * Carl Hamacher, Zvonko Vraesic and Safwat Zaky, Computer Organisation, MGH 5th edition.
 * Douglas V. Hall, Microprocessors and interfacing, Tata McGraw-Hill
 * Barry Brey,C.R.Sharma,"The Intel microprocessors",Pearson

= Reference Books =
 * William Stalling, Computer organization and Architecture, PHI 4th edition.
 * Yu-Cheng Lieu & Glenn A. Gibson,"Microcomputer systems:The 8086/8088 Family",* Tanenbaum,Prentice Hall of India “
 * John Uffenbeck,"The 8086/8088 Design,Programming,Interfacing"Prentice Hall of India.

=Students=

This is where the students will list their usernames and articles. /LIST/