Topic Schedule

All readings are from Fluency with Information Technology by Snyder. You may find it helpful to bring your textbook to class. An asterisk (*) in the "Week" column indicates that a quiz will be given on Thursday of that week. An octothorpe (#) in the Week column indicates that an assignment is due. There will be no makeup quizzes or assignments. There are NO MIDTERMS and NO FINAL.

Week
Topic
Readings
W1

Terms of Endearment - computer hardware, blogs, wikis and podcasts

Ch. 1 - and blogs, wikis, podcasts, and RSS
W2 *#

HCI - Human-Computer Interfaces

 Ch. 2 - HCI
W3

(no class Monday)

Networking - protocols, TCP-IP, etc.
Multimedia and networks

Ch. 3 - Networking
W4 * # Starting HTML Ch. 4 - HTML
W5 Locating info on the Web - search engines
Ch. 5 - Search Engines
W6 # Algorithms and programming Ch. 7 - Algorithms
W7 * Data representation - bits & bytes Ch. 8 - Data representation
W8 # Operating systems - how computers operate
Ch. 9 - Computer operation
W9 # A new way of thinking - thinking algorithmically

Ch. 10 - Algorithmic thinking
W10 * Digitally representing multimedia - text, images, audio, video Ch. 11 - Representing multimedia