Hardware basics - input, output, storage, processing worksheet in class
Begin discussing history of computers - Jacquard, Babbage
Videos: Babbage's Difference Engine
Tuesday:
Dissect computers, do dissection worksheet
Hardware vocabulary due
Read "Cartoon Guide" through page 64
Wednesday:
Finish "Cartoon Guide" reading
(Group 1 current events can be handed in:
P1: Maya, Stephen, Charlotte, Quinn, Josh, Dana, May, Zack H., Alfred, Ritik
P2: Vishwak, Neil, Brian, Lauren C., Tanay, Dan, Lauren H., Matthew, Bryan, Alex)
P1: Maya, Stephen, Charlotte, Quinn, Josh, Dana, May, Zack H., Alfred, Ritik
P2: Vishwak, Neil, Brian, Lauren C., Tanay, Dan, Lauren H., Matthew, Bryan, Alex)
Continue with history of computers: Babbage, Hollerith, WW II computers
Videos: The Queen of Code ENIAC SAGE
Thursday:
Friday:
Read pages 1 and 2 of "How Do Operating Systems Work?" for today
Complete computer hardware discussion:
Discuss computer chips, Moore's Law
Introduce computer bus and bus services
Fetch/execute cycle
Experiment with the Visible Computer Class handout
Friday:
Read pages 1 and 2 of "How Do Operating Systems Work?" for today
Complete computer hardware discussion:
Discuss computer chips, Moore's Law
video: How do they make computer chips? Zoom into a microchip
Discuss modern computer history: 1960s to today.
Discuss how a disk drive works
Introduce operating systems.