Note to students: if you're interested in starting to learn about programming now rather than waiting a few months, you might want to sign up for the free online course CS101-Building A Search Engine. It's designed for people with no programming experience at all -- and if you don't like it, you can just quit!
Monday:
read the following:
This last one is optional: Israeli Test on Worm Called Crucial in Iran Nuclear Delay. It's long, but extremely interesting. It talks about the Stuxnet worm, the most sophisticated ever, which has apparently sabotaged the Iranian atomic weapons program.
Last class time to work on "Virus, Spyware, etc" project
Tuesday:
(Viruses/Spyware, etc project due at 11:15, both on paper and via turnitin -- no class time today to work on it)
New subject: binary numbers and information encoding
Wednesday:
(Binary/hex worksheet due at beginning of class)
review binary and hexadecimal numbers
discuss analog and digital information, digitized audio and images
Watch Nova segment about auto-tune, Youtube video Use Audacity to Help Learn Songs on Guitar
Experiment with Audacity (free download available at http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/ )
Thursday:
(Looking ahead to next week:
Homework for next Tuesday, March 6th:
TCP/IP try-at-home worksheet (here are links for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Mac OS X versions. If you have problems getting parts of it to work, you must use the results from the screenshots I made when I did the exercises myself back in 2007. You will lose a point for every question that you don't answer, or say "It didn't work".
Also for next Tuesday:
read Secret Geek A-Team Hacks Back, Defends Worldwide Web and fill out the homework sheet: DNS hacking worksheet.doc)
review digitizing of audio and images
3D imaging: how a CAT scan works
begin internet history and technology:
watch Lighting of the Beacons from Lord of the Rings
Friday:
JSUMC rotation
