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CMPS 002 - Computer Literacy
Lecture Schedule
This schedule is subject to change.
| Week | Date | Subject | Reading | Lab/Work |
| 1 | Sep 25 |
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Grading
Policy
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Read the grading policy Quiz 1 is on Quiz 1 is based on course information and grading policy only, no questions from the textbook! |
| 30 |
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Chapter 1 Our Digital Planet |
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| 2 | Oct 2 |
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Hardware Basics |
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| 7 |
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Last day for Quiz 1 |
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| 3 | 9 |
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Chapter 3 Hardware: Peripherals
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Quiz 2 is on |
| 14 |
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Chapter 4 Software |
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| 4 | 16 | Examples of application software
Graphic Software
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Chapter
5 Applications |
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| 21 |
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Get Ready for the Second Life Party | ||
| 5 | 23 |
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Chapter 6 Graphics ... |
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| 28 | Midterm #1 |
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Last day for Quiz 2 |
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| 6 | 30 |
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Chapter 7 Database |
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| Nov 4 |
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| 7 | 6 |
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Chapter
8 Networking |
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| 11 |
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| 8 | 13 | Chapter 9 Internet |
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| 18 |
The world at your fingertips |
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| 9 | 20 | Term Paper due
with lab 16 - no papers will be accepted after lab 16
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Work on your term paper!
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| 25 | Midterm #2 Chapters 5,6,7,8,9 |
Last day for Quiz 3 |
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| 10 | Dec 2 |
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Chapter 10 Security |
Quiz 4 is on |
| Revision | ||||
| 4 |
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| Final |
Dec 9 |
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Last day for Quiz 4 | |
Films shown in class
- How Computers Work
- The Paperback Computer
- Inventing the Future
- Triumph of the Nerds, PBS. McHenry Media Center, VT 4004, vol 1-3. (There is a transcript online.)
- Knowledge Navigator, Apple. Science Library reserve, VT 1819
- Machines that Think, Kurzweil. Science Library reserve, VT 1414
- The Thinking Machine.
- Nerds 2.0.1, A Brief History of the Internet, PBS. Science Library reserve, VT 5881, vol. 1-3. (There is a glossary and other info online. There is also an accompanying book, Science Library reserve, TK5105.875.I5 S44 1998.)