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Discuss rules and expectations, course outline, current events assignment
Tuesday:
Homework for the beginning of class today: register for turnitin, bring back parent/guardian contact information sheet
Ones and zeroes: introduce binary/hex numbers
What is Unicode?
Give out binary/hex worksheet - due Wednesday
Wednesday:
Homework for the beginning of class today: "Good Questions", binary/hex worksheet due
Complete binary/hex numbers discussion
Neil DeGrasse Tyson on Autotune
Audacity - free audio software
Begin discussing digital representation of sounds and images, digital cameras, CAT scans
Thursday:
Continue discussing digital representation of sounds and images, digital cameras, CAT scans
Give out internet vocab sheet - due Monday, see below.
Discuss internet try-at-home - due Monday, see below.
Pixel widgets from code.org
Aloe Blacc talking about compression from code.org
Text compression widget from code.org
Let's enhance. . .
Gigapixel images
Friday:
Wrap up digital representation of images and sounds, CAT scan
Begin internet discussion of internet history and technologyVideos:
The Lighting of the Beacons
What is the Internet?
Wires, Cables, and Wifi
IP addresses and DNS
Packets, Routing, and Reliability
Discuss internet try-at-home - due Monday, see below.
Pixel widgets from code.org
Aloe Blacc talking about compression from code.org
Text compression widget from code.org
Let's enhance. . .
Gigapixel images
Friday:
Wrap up digital representation of images and sounds, CAT scan
Begin internet discussion of internet history and technologyVideos:
The Lighting of the Beacons
What is the Internet?
Wires, Cables, and Wifi
IP addresses and DNS
Packets, Routing, and Reliability
For next Monday:
1) Internet vocab due.
2) 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:
2) 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/ .
For next Tuesday:
