IIT 242 — DIGITAL COMPUTERS & COMPUTING (CUR-326)
Summary 🟢 ✓
- Resource type: course
- Owner Unit: Illinois Institute of Technology (Engineering)
- College/School: IIT Partnership
- Curriculum section: Engineering / Computer Science / CDM
- Catalog: IIT 242
- Last Verified: 2026-07-01
Course access
- Level: green (
Open Enrollment) - Rationale: No formal prerequisites listed in catalog description; open to any student meeting university registration rules.
- Prerequisites: None listed in catalog description
Verification
- Status: verified_catalog_course (
✓) - Rationale: Captured from official DePaul course catalog (2026-06-30 discovery pass).
- Source URL: catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/iit
- Last verified: 2026-07-01
Catalog description
Basic concepts in computer architecture, organization, and programming, including: integer and floating point number representations, memory organization, computer processor operation (the fetch/execute cycle), and computer instruction sets. Programming in machine language and assembly language with an emphasis on practical problems. Brief survey of different computer architectures. (Taught at Illinois Institute of Technology as ECE 242) (4.5 quarter hours)
Hardware relevance
Catalog course linked to map themes/programs: illinois_institute_of_technology_dual_degree.
Documented resource links
EXT-016
- Relationship: taught_at_partner
- Rationale: DePaul catalog lists this course as taught at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) under the DePaul–IIT joint engineering programs.
- Source URLs:
- catalog.depaul.edu/student-handbooks/undergraduate/univers…
- www.iit.edu/ugaa/joint-programs/depaul-university
- catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/iit
- Resource page: EXT-016
Notes
Catalog course key: IIT 242.
Provenance (promotion record)
- Promotion date: 2026-07-01
- Promotion batch:
catalog-course-promotion-2026-06-30 - Provenance kernel:
depaul/XTR-000265←depaul/SRC-000907(catalog_description)- Extraction status: linked
- Evidence packets:
2026-06-30-engineering-catalog-evidence- Program tags: illinois_institute_of_technology_dual_degree
- Schedule (capture): Not offered in queried registrar terms
- Evidence captures:
- Catalog:
sources/inbox/2026-06-30-engineering-catalog-evidence/source_snapshot/captured/catalog-search-IIT-242.html - Schedule:
sources/inbox/2026-06-30-engineering-catalog-evidence/source_snapshot/captured/schedule-IIT-242.json - Notes: Promoted from catalog discovery evidence packets; XTR/SRC linkage to be completed in forthcoming provenance refactor.