homework due at the beginning of class: binary/hex worksheet
Continue discussing digital representation of sounds and images, digital cameras, CAT scans
Links:
- What is Unicode?
- Neil DeGrasse Tyson on Autotune
- Audacity - free audio software
Continue with digital representation of sounds and images
Give out internet vocab sheet - due Thursday
- Pixel widgets from code.org
- Aloe Blacc talking about compression from code.org
- Text compression widget from code.org
- Let's enhance. . .
- Gigapixel images
homework due at the beginning of class: Group 1 current events
Remember to enter your topic here and be sure no one else from your section is already doing it.
P1: Ridhima, Dienye, Abigail, Sarah, Daniela
P2: Liza, Sydney, Adriana, Subhan, Dante
Wrap up digital representation of images and sounds, CAT scan
Begin internet discussion of internet history and technology
Discuss internet try-at-home - due Friday. Links to instructions are below under Friday's entry.
Videos:
Thursday:
Discuss internet try-at-home - due Friday. Links to instructions are below under Friday's entry.
Videos:
- The Lighting of the Beacons
- What is the Internet?
- Wires, Cables, and Wifi
- IP addresses and DNS
- Packets, Routing, and Reliability
Thursday:
homework due at the beginning of class: Internet vocabulary.
Introduce Computer Pioneer project
Continue discussion of internet history and technology
Introduce Computer Pioneer project
Continue discussion of internet history and technology
Friday:
homework due at the beginning of class:
Read Secret Geek A-Team Hacks Back, Defends Worldwide Web and turn in this worksheet.
Also do TCP/IP try-at-home for Windows 7, and Mac OS/X. Windows 10 users, this page may be helpful if you can't figure out how to get telnet to work. Also:
Read Secret Geek A-Team Hacks Back, Defends Worldwide Web and turn in this worksheet.
Also do TCP/IP try-at-home for Windows 7, and Mac OS/X. Windows 10 users, this page may be helpful if you can't figure out how to get telnet to work. Also:
- whatismyipaddress.com shows a less detailed map than it used to. Also try http://www.ipfingerprints.com/ and http://addgadgets.com/ipaddress/ and see if your results are different.
- if you were interested in tracert (called traceroute on Mac), you might want to play around with servers around the world like w2.vatican.va (the Vatican) and sina.cn (China). You might also want to try the visual traceroute tool at http://www.monitis.com/traceroute/ .
