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