Monday:
Homework for today: finish all 12 problems in Warmup-1, and do at least 5 problems from Logic-1, String-1, and List-1. This will be treated as a homework assignment. Make sure you are logged in before you start! Otherwise I won't have any evidence that you completed it.
In class: computer dissection
Hand out computer hardware vocab (due Monday, Dec 11th), Cartoon Guide to the Computer
Any remaining time used for working on computer hardware vocab
Tuesday:
Homework for today: Read Cartoon Guide to the Computer handout through page 64.
Introduce computer hardware basics - input, output, storage, processing worksheet in class
Begin discussing history of computers - Jacquard, Babbage, Lovelace, Hollerith, WW II computers
Videos:
Babbage's Difference Engine
The Queen of Code
ENIAC
(optional: Getting Busted in NJ with Core Memory)
Wednesday:
Homework for today: Finish reading Cartoon Guide to the Computer
Review for Python subroutine quiz (entire period)
Thursday:
Python subroutine quiz (one hour max)
Continue with computer history and hardware discussion
Continue with history of computers up through the 50s.
Video:
SAGE
Friday:
(Short period due to knee replacement distance learning)
Homework for today: Machine learning paper due
Introduce computer bus and bus services