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COURSE MECHANICS

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Web Sites

• WebCT-Vista– Pointer to home– Grades– Please do not use WebCT-Vista e-mail

• Home site– Other ways to get to the home site

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Syllabus

• Resources• Instructor– Office hours– E-mail

• Evaluation– Policies

• Academic policies

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Class

• Lecture-Demonstration-Discussion• Notes will be posted beforehand– Though minor changes may get made

until the last minute

• Class is usually recorded: voice and screen capture– Usually posted by the next day

• Quizzes will not be announced

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WHY COMPUTERS MATTER TO YOU

Becoming Computer Literate

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Objectives

• Computer Literate• Savvy computer user and consumer• Career help• Take advantage of future

technologies• Challenges– Digital society– How to deal with the challenges

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Let’s List Computers

• The goal here is to list all the computers we can recognize in the classroom

• Some of these may be embedded systems, specific to a particular device

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Why be Computer Literate?

• Computers are ubiquitous• Opportunities in computer use– Positive impact on your life– Set yourself apart

• Problems in computer use– Security

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Savvy User and Consumer

• Using computers efficiently• Getting the most for your money– Getting what you really need

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Prepared for Your Career

• Employer expectations• Setting yourself apart

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Computers Today

• Searching• Shopping• Sharing• Games• Medicine

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Education

• Providing materials and resources–Web pages– Grades

• Recordings of classes• Communication

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Legal Issues

• Intellectual property• Crimes against computers– ‘Hacking’

• Crimes using computers– Phishing

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Challenges

• Increasingly sophisticated surveillance

• Privacy • Accuracy

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Summary

• Computer literate• Knowledgeable• Careers• Taking advantage• Challenges

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HISTORYTo the Personal Computer and Beyond

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Early Days

• Mechanical calculators• Jacquard Loom• Babbage’s engines• Hollerith tabulating machine• The Turing machine• Early electronic computers

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Adventure and Zork

• Adventure– Early computer game– Available if you had terminal access to a

mainframe– Demo

• Zork– A series– For personal computers

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Personal Computers

• Home kits• Consumer goods– Apple, Commodore, TRS

• Visicalc: the killer app• Standardization: IBM PC• Operating systems

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Early News Service

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WCTn4FljUQ

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Interfaces

• Command line• Graphic User Interface– Xerox PARC– Lisa and Macintosh–Windows

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