| Being Fluent With Information Technology requires life long learning. Though FIT100 is only the starting point, we have been exposed to many topics. |
The 10 Most Important Topics ...
| Internet, Local Area Network | |
| TCP/IP and postcard analogy | |
| Ethernet and conversation analogy | |
| IP Address, DNS | |
| Hierarchical domain names | |
| spiff.cs.washington.edu | |
| World Wide Web | |
| HTML, FTP, http:// | |
| Physical/logical separation |
| A human’s innate knowledge of | |
| technology | |
| The perfect GUI: Mac CD Player | |
| Consistent interfaces | |
| Standard metaphors | |
| Standard information processing | |
| operations | |
| Clicking Around | |
| Blazing Away | |
| Notice how extensively you used this skills with DBs |
| Fetch/Execute cycle and analogy | |
| to Nenana Ice Classic | |
| Five components of a computer | |
| Memory and container analogy | |
| Machine instructions and the | |
| indirect reference to operands | |
| Instruction reference via PC | |
| Memory and speed terminology | |
| Five basic properties of algorithms | ||
| Input Specified … like procedure formals | ||
| Output Specified … like procedure results | ||
| Effectiveness | ||
| Definiteness | ||
| Finiteness … iterations stop | ||
| Alphabetize CD’s example | ||
| Importance of language in being | ||
| precise | ||
| Difference between algorithms and | ||
| programs | ||
| Names, values and variables | |
| Assignment | |
| Expressions | |
| Conditionals | |
| Procedures with parameters | |
| Iteration | |
| Indexing and arrays | |
| VB6 Integrated Development Env |
| Worked through as series of problem | ||
| solving and reasoning situations | ||
| Binary search algorithm | ||
| CDC database design | ||
| Weight Guesser program | ||
| Inch Worm program | ||
| Art program examples (boxes, squirals etc) | ||
| Body Mass Index program | ||
| Programming exercises | ||
| Zodiac problems | ||
| Art program | ||
| Game of Life modifications | ||
| On several occasions abstraction | ||
| was discussed | ||
| Procedural abstraction | ||
| Algorithms as more abstract programs | ||
| Debugging and trouble shooting | ||
| Testing solutions | ||
| Think abstractly about processes | ||
| How do things work | ||
| Am I being as effective with computers | ||
| as possible | ||
| Can I apply more or better technology | ||
| Basic structure of relational DBs, | ||
| including tables, tuples, fields, types | ||
| Forming relationships in DBs | ||
| Queries | ||
| Basics of Access | ||
| Tables, Forms, Reports | ||
| Wizards | ||
| Editing and revising the system | ||
| Can computers think? | |
| Interpretation of instructions | |
| Digital representation of information | |
| Simulation | |
| Problems unsolvable by computers | |
| Searching for information | |
| Public key encryption | |
| Algorithmic thinking | |
| Communication design |
IT and Social & Ethical Issues
| Politics and the internet | ||
| E-mail etiquette; flaming | ||
| What is the relation between technology and moral values? | ||
| Issues around security; viruses | ||
| Stuff I wish we had time for: | ||
| Privacy and databases | ||
| Inequitable access to information and production of information | ||
| Copyright and patents in the internet age (Napster anyone?) | ||
| Software entrepreneurship | ||
| …. | ||
| How to find information | |
| Finding work-arounds to bugs or | |
| system incompatibilities | |
| Experience with | |
| contemporary systems | |
| Reasoning by analogy and example | |