Thursday, April 14, 2016

Week of April 18th - 22nd, 2016

Monday:
Personal day for Mr. Judkis
Begin work on Robotics/AI paper

Tuesday:
Computer hardware vocab due (moved from Monday)
Begin signups for AI/Robotics presentations
Computer dissection

Wednesday:

shortened periods - distance learning
Group 1 robotics/AI current events:
P1: Juliana, Emily, Kristen, Alex, Eddie
P2: Keely, Abby, Katie, Lauren, Neha
Introduce computer bus and bus services


Thursday:
Fetch/execute cycle

Experiment with the Visible Computer - Class handout
Discuss computer chips, Moore's Law
Video: How do they make computer chips? Zoom into a microchip  Photolithography
Discuss modern computer history: 1960s to today.

Friday:
Complete computer hardware discussion:
Discuss how a disk drive works

Read "How Operating Systems Work" for today
Operating Systems vocabulary due
Introduce operating systems: two roles, five jobs of an operating system