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Syllabus Objectives:

1. Become familiar with information technology hardware including the basic internal anatomy of a personal computer.
2. Understand the role of Operating Systems and demonstrate knowledge of command-line UNIX, Windows 7, and OS X.
3. Demonstrate file and folder management on PC, disk, flash memory stick, and zoo home directory server and backup directory server.
4. Detect and elimination of Computer Viruses & Spyware and protect your PC with Zone Alarm fire-wall software.
5. Demonstrate proficiency with electronic communication: e-mail, etiquette, attachments, and signature files.
6. Be familiar with the Blackboard^? environment and post journal entries.
7. Demonstrate proficiency in presentation graphics applications by giving a presentation in front of a class.
8. Demonstrate proficiency in word processing applications including tabs, hanging indent, and citing references for images and ideas.
9. Demonstrate proficiency in converting between decimal and binary numbers and an understand of using binary to code for text, images, and sound.
10. Demonstrate proficiency in spreadsheet and graphing applications including choosing the correct graph type, given a data set.
11. Understand and demonstrate how to present and interpret data in graphic form including basic descriptive statistics (central tendency and variation).
12. Understand what a peer-reviewed publication is, and the difference between primary, secondary, and tertiary data.
13. Demonstrate finding reliable, credible sources of information on the web, and in the University library.
14. Find useful data on the Internet, be critical of those data, and interpret those data.
15. Demonstrate knowledge of data classification (Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, etc.).
16. Understand, create, and interpret X Y scatter plots, box plots, histograms, population pyramids, and choropleth maps.
17. Create World Wide Web Pages using HTML code and publish on the web using the zoo web server.
18. Understand the history and legacy of computing.
19. Appreciate the utility, benefit, and limitations of computers and information technology.
20. Improve writing skills.

First Exam: October 2 & 4, Two Weeks Away !!!  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 Start 6:20 to end.

Websites of the Week: TED Talks: view Michael Shermer's First TED Talk, Michael Shermer's Second TED Talk, http://www.ted.com/talks/mikko_hypponen_fighting_viruses_defending_the_net.html.

Preview of Lab Next week:  Unix Command line, Alpine email client

Reading: Digital thermometers and scales, Analog to digital converters, Digital to analog converters, Text Section 4-8 (pages 24-53)

LECTURE:

Types of Data and some examples.

Graph Practice 1