ANNOUNCEMENTS & ASSIGNMENTS:

First Exam: NEXT WEEK! (Oct 8).  Be on time or lose points!  Exam will cover anything presented in lecture, lab, and readings online and in the textbook.  Old Exams are online.

Friday Lab Folks, please go to another lab next week (Oct 5 - 9).  Either go to lab on Tuesday afternoon 2:30-4:00, or Wednesday afternoon 1:55-3:30, or do the lab assignment on your own.  Please let me know if you have concerns/questions.

Website of the Week: example of interactive stacked area graph: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/07/31/business/20080801-metrics-graphic.html

Preview of Lab Next Two Weeks:
This week:  Working with Unix command line, and safe fast email client pine.  How to tell how much stuff you have saved in your zoo home directory: du -sk  (units are reported in KiloBytes, so 500000 = 500 MegaBytes, keep total under Five Gigabytes or 5000 MegaBytes)
Next Week: Anti-virus strategies, Resume construction in Word.

Reading: Digital thermometers and scales, Analog to digital converters, Digital to analog converters 
                Text Section 7-8 (pages 46-53) 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)

Please post to the discussion board of your lab in Blackboard.  5% of your course grade is based on your participation in the discussion.  You should post one a week (minimum of 14 postings for the semester).

LECTURE:

Graph Practice One review,

Class Histogram

Binary Numbers (how to convert Binary into decimal, and decimal into Binary)

How Bill Gates became the Richest Man in the world (video) finish.