Friday, May 10, 2019

Week of May 13th - 17th, 2019

Monday:
Homework for today: Read "Soldering is Easy" handout twice

do Soldering Q&A worksheet
Soldering lab
Give out "How Operating Systems Work" reading for Wednesday, Operating Systems vocabulary for Thursday

Tuesday:
Homework for today: Finish reading "Cartoon Guide to the Computer" handout, if you didn't already.


Finish discussion of computer history through the 50s.
Begin discussion of computer bus and bus services
Discuss computer chips, Moore's Law, Photolithography
Videos:
How do they make computer chips?
Zoom into a microchip

Experiment with the Visible Computer - Class handout

Wednesday:
Homework for today: Read 'How operating systems work'
Booting a computer
Discuss modern computer history: 1960s to today.
Complete computer hardware discussion
How does a hard drive work?

Thursday:
Homework for today: OS vocabulary due at the beginning of class
Introduce operating systems: two roles, five jobs of an OS: processor management, memory and storage management, device management, application interface, and user interface.
Try System Information and Activity Monitor apps.
Do hands-on OS with terminal window
Introduce file names and paths.


Friday:
Personal day for Mr. Judkis
Students will have the period to work on the AI/Robotics papers