Computer Science 221 - Introduction to Computing Systems
Intro to Computing Systems
Spring
2026
01
4.00
James McCauley
MWF 10:00AM-11:15AM
Mount Holyoke College
129910
mmccauley@mtholyoke.edu
This course looks at the inner workings of a computer and computer systems. It is an introduction to computer architecture. Specific topics include assembly language programming, memory, and parallelism. This course is programming intensive.
Prereq: COMSC-201 or COMSC-205; and MATH-232.; Coreq: COMSC-221L.
Multiple required components--lab and/or discussion section. To register, submit requests for all components simultaneously.