Topics:

• Introduction to computer systems and architecture

• Unix basic commands. Useful link: Linux Tutorial

Assignment:

• Compute the binary and hexadecimal form of the decimal number 58,317 (without a scientific calculator). How did you perform the conversion?

• How much memory (RAM) should your computer have if you would like to search the whole human genome for the presence of a sequence by placing all of it in main memory? Justify your answer.

• Using unix commands found in the 'Unix basic commands' text file above, how can you count the number of files in a directory using a single compound command?

• Which parameter of cp should be used to recursively copy whole directories and all their contents? How about the command mv?