Syllabus - SI 526

• Jan 8 - Introduction - prof, students, course
  • What is inside the box?
  • What is information? How do we get information?
  • Review - word processing, email, WWW
• Jan 15 -
  • Binary arithmetic
  • Knowledge is power
  • Confer, newsgroups, listservers
• Jan 22 -
  • Binary logic and gates
  • Design and human needs
  • Presentation software
• Jan 29 -
  • Doing arithmetic with logic
  • Impact of technology
  • Databases
• Feb 5 -
  • Binary arithmetic for a dumb machine
  • History of Computing I
  • Spreadsheets
• Feb 12 -
  • Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU)
  • History of Computing II
• Feb 19 - Midterm (first hour)
  • Integrated Office Software
  • Trip to the media lab
• Feb 26 -
  • Transfering information
• Mar 5 - Spring Break - no class
• Mar 12 -
  • Transfering information
  • Registers and the Central Processing Unit (CPU)
  • HTML editing

    Some HTML Resources

    • A Beginner's Guide to HTML brought to you by the makers of Mosaic
    • Crash Course in HTML
    • The Bare Bones Guide to HTML
    • list of references
    • Weblint a syntax and minimal style checker for HTML written in Perl

    Some Web Page Graphics Archives

    • backgrounds
    • backgrounds
    • backgrounds
    • backgrounds
    • icons
    • icons
    • everything
• Mar 19 -
  • Memory and Input/Output (I/O) Microcode and assembly language
  • Photoshop
• Mar 26 -
  • High level languages
  • Javascript
• Apr 2 -
  • Operating Systems (OS)
  • MUDs and IRC
• Apr 9 - Bringing it all together
• Apr 16 - Final exam
  REVISED INFO ON THE FINAL I think you may need 1.5 hours for the final instead of 1. So, you can either start it at 5:30 or stay till 7:30, if you need some extra time. In any case, someone will interrupt you at 6:45 for about 15 minutes.