Questions?
ANNOUNCEMENTS & ASSIGNMENTS:First Exam: Oct 4, 6 !!! Be on time or lose points! Exam will cover anything presented in lecture, the video, lab, and readings online and in the textbook. Old Exams are online. Study all previous reading and the video (on reserve in Media Library downstairs in Bailey-Howe: "Triumph of the Nerds, Volume 2 Riding the Bear" on the shelf of reserved videos, may be shelved in AGRI instead of CALS)
Websites of the Week: Exact time from the US Naval Observatory, The Story of Stuff (with Annie Leonard). Wolfram Alpha, a new search engine concept: ask computational questions.This
week in Lab:
Power
Point Presentation (questions?). Everyone should
finish their presentations in lab this week. If you are sick
or have an accident, notify your lab TAs
BEFORE LAB or you
will earn no credit (zero). File
and folder management on thumb drive and WinSCP. Do
not put things you want to keep private in your public_html directory.
Next Week in Lab: Working with
Unix
command line, and safe fast email client
pine.
Reading: Digital thermometers and scales, Analog to digital converters, Digital to analog converters, Text Section 7-8 (pages 46-53)
LECTURE:
Types of Data and some examples.
Graphing Exercise #1 Review, Hurricanes 1886-2004, Global Temperature changes
Finish Video: Triumph of the Nerds: How Bill Gates became the richest man in the world
