For each discussion day, you are to read the assigned chapter and/or online resource and email your instructor (davereed@creighton.edu) with answers to the specified review questions. Email must be sent by 10:00 am on the discussion day. Please send your responses as text within the email, as opposed to a separate attachment.

8/28: Computer Basics

Chapter 1 review questions: 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 21.

8/30: History of Science & Computing

1. Chapter 6 review questions: 13, 16, 17, 21.
2. List three ways in which science has a profound effect on everyday life.
3. Describe two advantages of using computer simulations or models to study real-world objects.
4. What was the Age of Enlightenment and how did the approach to solving problems during this period differ from those previously used? Describe one key scientific advance during this period.

9/13: The Internet and the Web

Chapter 3 review questions: 13, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23.

10/11: Computers in Biology and Bioinformatics

1. Describe two ways in which computers are used by researchers in the biological sciences.
2. Identify one genetic disease and the faulty or missing gene that causes the disease.
3. Who coined the term "bioinformatics?"
4. DNA is made up of a sequence of bases (commonly represented as C, G, A, and T). Roughly how many base pairs make up the human genome (i.e., the collection of chromosomes that define a human being)?
5. Given your answer to the previous question, how many bits of computer storage would be required to represent the human genome. Recall, a megabyte (MB) is roughly 1 million bytes, or 8 million bits. A gigabyte (GB) is roughly 1 billion bytes, or 8 billion bits.

10/25: Algorithms and Programming Languages

Chapter 8 review questions: 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 23.

11/6: Computer Science as a Discipline

Chapter 10 review questions: 11, 12, 15, 17, 19, 20.

12/4: Computers and Society

Chapter 18 review questions: 9, 10, 11, 12.