Welcome to Principles of Computer Technology, Spring 2020 Edition!
Friday, January 31st:
Welcome!
Discuss rules and expectations, course outline, current events assignment, "Good Questions" homework for next Tuesday.
Monday, February 3rd:
Homework due at the beginning of class today: register for turnitin, bring back parent/guardian contact information sheet, take this survey to help me know a little about you.
Begin unit 1: Digital Representation of Real World Information
Essential Questions:
- How can a computer work with so many kinds of information if all it can do is process ones and zeroes?
- How can a computer turn physical phenomena like sound and pictures into ones and zeroes?
- How can a computer turn ones and zeroes into physical phenomena like pictures and sounds?
Give out binary/hex worksheet for Tuesday.
Tuesday:
Homework due at the beginning of class today: "Good Questions", binary/hex worksheet due
Complete binary/hex numbers discussion.
Begin discussing digital representation of sounds and images, digital cameras, CAT scans
Give out internet vocabulary sheet - due Thursday
Wednesday:
Begin discussing digital representation of sounds and images, digital cameras, CAT scans
- What is Unicode?
- Neil DeGrasse Tyson on Autotune
- Audacity - free audio software
Give out internet vocabulary sheet - due Thursday
Wednesday:
Current events group 1 due today:
P1: Ayah, Lucas, Sejal, Paige, Olivia
P2: Isha, Areebah, Christopher, Jacob, Alexa
Remember to enter your topic here and be sure no one else from your section is already doing it.
Continue discussing digital representation of sounds and images, digital cameras, CAT scans
Thursday:
Homework due at beginning of class today: Internet vocabulary
P1: Ayah, Lucas, Sejal, Paige, Olivia
P2: Isha, Areebah, Christopher, Jacob, Alexa
Remember to enter your topic here and be sure no one else from your section is already doing it.
Continue discussing digital representation of sounds and images, digital cameras, CAT scans
- A little bit about pixels from code.org (5:49)
- Pixel widgets from code.org (optional)
- Aloe Blacc talking about compression from code.org (3:23)
- Text compression widget from code.org (optional)
- Video compression as fast as possible (6:09)
- Let's enhance. . . (1:43)
- Amped Software - from the crime scene to the courtroom (2:30)
- Gigapixel images
- Jordan Peele uses AI, President Obama in fake news PSA (2:31)
- Fake videos of real people - and how to spot them (TED talk) (7:15)
- How hard is it to make a believeable deepfake? Very interesting article. Includes this Deepfake Quiz
- In Event of Moon Disaster
Thursday:
Homework due at beginning of class today: Internet vocabulary
Wrap up digital representation of images and sounds, CAT scan
Discuss internet try-at-home, due Monday
Begin Unit 2: Basic Principles of the Internet
Essential Questions:
Begin internet discussion of internet history and technology
Discuss internet try-at-home, due Monday
Begin Unit 2: Basic Principles of the Internet
Essential Questions:
- What is the Internet?
- Where did it come from, and how did it evolve?
- How does it function?
- What is a protocol?
- What is an open system?
- What characteristics of the Internet have allowed it to become so pervasive?
- How does the ability of computers to communicate with one another affect our lives?
Begin internet discussion of internet history and technology
Videos:
TCP/IP try-at-home for next Monday:
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.
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.
Friday:
Quiz on binary and hex numbers, digital representation of information
Continue with discussion of Internet technology.
Videos:
