LIS-3353 - Software I (Fall 2025)

Big Ideas and Math

Some big ideas

..YMMV

BIG IDEAS - Influencers!

(no, not that kind)

• Economics
• Law
• Etiquette
• Psychology
• CODE/TECHNOLOGY

A question

What do you do here?

GOD FORBID

you pick this off the floor

This...

Before THIS????

YUP I WAS THERE

Nassim Taleb's..

Why do we still have these?

Top 2 Games at the Innovation Hub: #2

#1

Simplest Computer?

Simplest Computer?

HUGE CONCEPT #1

All computers do is “numbers”

• you put numbers into them
• it messes with the numbers
• it gives you some numbers back

(but, you can store anything in numbers)

other set of slides please

3353-binary.pdf

HUGE CONCEPT #1

ANYTHING IN NUMBERS
yields
HUGE(R) CONCEPT #2

HUGE(R) CONCEPT #2

All computers do is follow a very
precise list of instructions that one or
more people wrote.