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Comp1900 – Lecture week 2
Kathy Egea
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Overview• Intermediated experience
– Command line vs GUI cp Disney’s approach– OS, software are intermediaries
• Structure– GUI interface access to OS , hardware, software,
networks, internet– File system access to hard drive (HD)
• Information– Software to OS to computer/printer/? and back– Backing up– Communication across platforms and version control
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Introduction to Computers
• History of computers• Computer functions• Bits and bytes• Software – application programs and system
programs• Storage of data – hardware• Input of data – hardware
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Operating systems
• Mac• Windows• Linux• Red Hat• UNIX• Sugar OS (XO computer for kids)
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What an OS does?
Figure 5.7, Evans, Martin and Poastsy (2009, p215)5
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Other information
• Processor management• Booting• File organisation• Utility programs
– Defrag utility– Task manager utility– Backup utility
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Threshold Concept
• Operating system, and software, are intermediaries
• "Disney does mediated experiences better than anyone. If they understood what OSes are, and why people use them, they could crush Microsoft in a year or two." from "In the beginning".
• Reading: Neil Stephenson : http://www.locusmag.com/2004/Issues/08Stephenson.html
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Intermediated experience : result of hardware + software (OS + applications)
– Command line vs GUI interaction cp Disney’s approach
– Computer perspective: Direct control (user) vs system control (GUI) cp Disney’s immersive process
– User’s perspective ~ user knowledge/preconceptions/expectation of operation; users want meaningful interaction
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Structure
• Desktop/GUI gives access to file system, operating system, network, internet/www
• different layers: network (OSI), hardware, operating system, and software
• file system gives access to hard-drives
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Information
• software to OS to computer/printer/? and back
• file names – individual perspective and changing with needs and understanding
• backing up • communication across platforms and
version control
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