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Being Fluent With Information Technology
requires life long learning. Though FIT100 is only the starting point, we
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Internet, Local Area Network |
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TCP/IP and postcard analogy |
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Ethernet and conversation analogy |
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IP Address, DNS |
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Hierarchical domain names |
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spiff.cs.washington.edu |
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World Wide Web |
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HTML, FTP, http:// |
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Physical/logical separation |
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A human’s innate knowledge of |
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technology |
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The perfect GUI: Mac CD Player |
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Consistent interfaces |
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Standard metaphors |
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Standard information processing |
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operations |
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Clicking Around |
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Blazing Away |
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Notice how extensively you used this skills with
DBs |
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Fetch/Execute cycle and analogy |
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to Nenana Ice Classic |
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Five components of a computer |
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Memory and container analogy |
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Machine instructions and the |
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indirect reference to operands |
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Instruction reference via PC |
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Memory and speed terminology |
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Five basic properties of algorithms |
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Input Specified … like procedure formals |
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Output Specified … like procedure results |
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Effectiveness |
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Definiteness |
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Finiteness … iterations stop |
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Alphabetize CD’s example |
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Importance of language in being |
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precise |
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Difference between algorithms and |
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programs |
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Names, values
and variables |
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Assignment |
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Expressions |
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Conditionals |
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Procedures with parameters |
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Iteration |
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Indexing and arrays |
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VB6 Integrated Development Env |
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Worked through as series of problem |
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solving and reasoning situations |
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Binary search algorithm |
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CDC database design |
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Weight Guesser program |
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Inch Worm program |
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Art program examples (boxes, squirals etc) |
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Body Mass Index program |
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Programming exercises |
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Zodiac problems |
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Art program |
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Game of Life modifications |
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On several occasions abstraction |
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was discussed |
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Procedural abstraction |
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Algorithms as more abstract programs |
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Debugging and trouble shooting |
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Testing solutions |
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Think abstractly about processes |
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How do things work |
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Am I being as effective with computers |
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as possible |
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Can I apply more or better technology |
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Basic structure of relational DBs, |
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including tables, tuples, fields, types |
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Forming relationships in DBs |
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Queries |
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Basics of Access |
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Tables, Forms, Reports |
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Wizards |
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Editing and revising the system |
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Can computers think? |
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Interpretation of instructions |
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Digital representation of information |
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Simulation |
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Problems unsolvable by computers |
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Searching for information |
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Public key encryption |
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Algorithmic thinking |
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Communication design |
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Politics and the internet |
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E-mail etiquette; flaming |
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What is the relation between technology and
moral values? |
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Issues around security; viruses |
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Stuff I wish we had time for: |
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Privacy and databases |
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Inequitable access to information and production
of information |
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Copyright and patents in the internet age
(Napster anyone?) |
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Software entrepreneurship |
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How to find information |
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Finding work-arounds to bugs or |
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system incompatibilities |
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Experience with |
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contemporary systems |
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Reasoning by analogy and example |
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Notes