Week of December 30th - January 3rd

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday:

• No school, Happy New Year!
• Feeling motivated to get a jump on the new year?  You're encouraged to work on the AI/Robotics paper.  Or play around with RUR-PLE - download it from here.  Get the .exe for Windows, or the .dmg for OS X.

Thursday:

• continue on with RUR-PLE
• introduce looping with for count in range()
• introduce branching with if/elif/else

Friday:

• (snow day)

Week of December 16th-20th

Monday:

• Operating Systems vocabulary due
• Discuss operating systems

Tuesday:

• wrap up operating systems discussion
• file names and paths, hands-on OS with terminal window
• give out review sheet for test on Thursday

Wednesday:

• Current event #2 due
• User interface videos
• Doug Engelbart's Mother of All Demos
• Microsoft Surface Table  (now called PixelSense)
• Sixth Sense - Patty Maes TED Talk
• Google Glass
• Android Wear
• Project Milo
• Brain-Computer Interface
• Nova Science Now: Social Robots
• start RUR-PLE

Thursday:

• test on computer history, hardware, operating systems
• continue with RUR-PLE when finished

Friday:

• continue with RUR-PLE

Week of Dec 9th-13th

Monday:

• Part III of medical informatics project due.  Here again are the links to the presentations.  Feel free to look at the presentations from the other period to help you finish the homework. 

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• finish Cartoon Guide reading
• What is hardware and software, anyway?
• Computer history through SAGE
• Videos:
• ENIAC
• SAGE
• Introduce computer bus and bus services

ENIAC, University of Pennsylvania

Tuesday:

• (snow day)

Wednesday:

• Dissect old PCs

Thursday:

• Hardware vocabulary due
• Discuss computer chips, Moore's Law
• Optional - handout on how to build a computer.  Not for the faint of heart.
• video: How do they make computer chips?
• Fetch/execute cycle
• Experiment with the Visible Computer
• Give out Operating System Vocabulary worksheet
• Discuss modern computer history: 1960s to today

Friday:

• How a disk drive works
• Read "How Do Operating Systems Work?"
• Introduce operating systems: two roles, five jobs of an operating system