Welcome to Principles of Computer Technology!
“We live in a time exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. This is a clear prescription for disaster.”
- Carl Sagan
- Carl Sagan
Wednesday:
Welcome! Discuss rules and expectations, course outline, current events assignment, "Good Questions" homework for next Tuesday.
Here is the main presentation from today (ctemc.org login required)
Thursday:
Begin unit 1: Digital Representation of Real World Information. Here is the presentation we'll be using for the next few classes (ctemc.org login required)
Essential Questions:
Begin unit 1: Digital Representation of Real World Information. Here is the presentation we'll be using for the next few classes (ctemc.org login required)
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?
Friday:
(Shorter classes today: P1 is 8:00 to 9:00 and P2 is 9:05 to 10:05)
First we will complete whatever is left from Thursday's class up through the slides on binary search. You have a number of upcoming assignments to work on in any time remaining:
- Your 'Introduce Yourself with FlipGrid' assignment is due by Friday evening so that I have a chance to look at them all over the weekend.
- Do first two units from Khan Academy CS Principles, 'Bits and Bytes' and 'Binary Numbers', and take Quiz #1 before class on Monday.
- 'Ask some good questions' is due Tuesday.
- 'Limitations of Storing Numbers' and 'Storing Text in Binary' from Khan Academy are also for Tuesday.
- Finally, remember that group 1 will do current events next Wednesday.
