- Computer hardware vocabulary due
- Give out OS vocab, reading for Wednesday
- Computer dissection
Tuesday:
(Color wars: Formal Day)
(Color wars: Formal Day)
- Introduce computer bus and bus services
- Discuss computer chips, Moore's Law
- video: How do they make computer chips?
- Fetch/execute cycle
- Experiment with the Visible Computer
- Discuss modern computer history: 1960s to today
Wednesday:
(Color wars: Twins/Triplets Day)
(Color wars: Twins/Triplets Day)
- Complete student survey
- Current events accepted today
- Complete computer hardware discussion
- Discuss how a disk drive works
- Read "How Do Operating Systems Work?" for today
- Introduce operating systems: two roles, five jobs of an operating system
(Color wars: Athletes & Mathletes Day)
- OS vocabulary sheet due
- wrap up operating systems discussion
- hands-on OS with terminal window
Friday:
(Color wars: Team Colors Day, shortened periods)
(Color wars: Team Colors Day, shortened periods)
- Give out review sheet for test on Monday
- File names and paths
- User interface videos
