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Individual Computers
Social Implications
Networked Computers
Understanding Computers
Computer Fluency
Using Computers
Course Overview
COMPUTER FLUENCY JOURNALObjective (6.3): Students will record new information learned
throughout the course. Entries from the journal will be shared at the beginning of class as a means of review.
Assignment steps:– You will begin a journal that tracks the progress of your computer
fluency throughout this course.– For each lecture, you are to enter the date and a fact or bit of new
information that you did not know before entering this course. Please bring them to class each time we meet.
– You will create your entries using Microsoft Word. Use the Insert Date and Time menu option to track every entry. For example:
Friday, October 29, 2005
Today we discussed computer history. I learned that the first computer programmer was a woman, Ada Lovelace.
The BasicsObjective 7.2
• Why study this course?
• http://faculty.winthrop.edu/garrisonc/CSCI101/Spring06/Slides/slides.htm
• What is a computer?
• Computer
• Data
• Information
• Hardware
• Software
• A computer programmer
• Users
HistoryHistoryObjectives 7.3, 7.4, 7.5Objectives 7.3, 7.4, 7.5
•Early history
•Five generations
•Internet
•Personal computers
• Charles Babbage
• Ada Lovelace
• Electronic Digital computers
• Before 1950’s
Generations1st Generation: Vacuum Tubes
2nd Generation: Transistors
3rd Generation: Integrated Circuits
4th Generation: Microprocessor
5th Generation: Intelligent computers
Internet
• Predecessor
• Dr. Tim Berners-Lee
• Marc Andreessen
PC HistoryPC History
• Apple
• IBM
• Bill Gates
• Sole Source
Assignment
• Quiz at beginning of class on week 1 material
• Write a couple sentences that describe what Herman Hollerith contributed to computer history
• Start Computer Fluency Journal