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Date |
Topic |
Reading |
Homework |
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Week 1 |
Jan 16 |
Introduction |
ITC Ethics in Computer Usage
ITC Responsible Computing Handbook
ITC Computing Policies
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Jan 18 |
Networking (I) |
Ch. 2
Electronic Submission Procedure |
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Week 2 |
Jan 21 |
No class |
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Jan 23 |
Networking (II) |
Ch 3
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Jan 25 |
HTML Basics |
Ch4, Appendix A |
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Week 3 |
Jan 28 |
Web page design |
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Jan 30 |
CSS & Managing websites |
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Feb 1 |
Dynamic pages & JavaScript |
Ch 18 |
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Week 4 |
Feb 4 |
Technology Ethics |
LambdaMOO Case
Lucasfilm's
Habitat Report
(See What is Habitat? and Great Debate section)
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Feb 6 |
Ethics cases |
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Feb 8 |
Spreadsheets |
Ch 13
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Week 5 |
Feb 11 |
Excel; Referencing |
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Feb 13 |
Search engines (I) |
Ch 5
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HW 2 due |
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Feb 15 |
Search engines (II) |
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Week 6 |
Feb 18 |
Binary; Audio Concepts |
Ch 11 pp. 311-322
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Feb 20 |
Digital Audio & Video |
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HW 3 due |
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Feb 22 |
PowerPoint |
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Week 7 |
Feb 25 |
Security Issues |
Ch 12 pp. 343-353
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Feb 27 |
Malware |
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Feb 29 |
Catch-up |
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Spring Break |
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Week 8 |
Mar 10 |
Midterm review |
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Mar 12 |
Midterm |
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Mar 14 |
Database Intro |
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Week 9 |
Mar 17 |
MS Access |
Ch 14
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Mar 19 |
Queries |
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Mar 21 |
Database design |
Ch 15 |
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Week 10 |
Mar 24 |
Software History |
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Mar 26 |
Computer Hardware |
Ch 8 |
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Mar 28 |
Binary & Hex; pipelining |
Ch 9 pp. 247-265 |
Project assigned |
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Week 11 |
Mar 31 |
Algorithms |
Ch 10 |
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Apr 2 |
Algorithmic Thinking |
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Apr 4 |
Algorithmic Complexity |
Ch 7 |
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Week 12 |
Apr 7 |
Cryptography |
Ch 17
Overview of Encryption
Symmetric/Private-key cryptography
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Apr 9 |
Cryptography (II) |
Asymmetric/Public-key cryptography |
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Apr 11 |
Cryptography (III) |
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Week 13 |
Apr 14 |
Software project management |
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Apr 16 |
Intellectual property |
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Apr 18 |
Copyright case |
Google Library Project
Google Copyright Analysis
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Week 14 |
Apr 21 |
Peer-to-peer networks |
Ch 12, pp. 353-360 |
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Apr 23 |
Internet Issues |
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Apr 25 |
Free speech issues |
Final project due |
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Week 15 |
Apr 28 |
Final review |
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