CPSC 110 class portrait, January 21, 2010
For starters, we talked about hardware. I showed the video Computer Tour from How Stuff Works. Several took notes about the major hardware parts of a computer. Then I divided the clas into two groups and gave each a PC they could take apart and identify the parts again – CPU, RAM, hard rive, and so on. Students seemed curious.
Hardware lead to software and we went to the lab for a try at using Python. It seemed to go fairly well with everyone getting to the point of entering and testing a program.
We’ll try more of that on Tuesday along with a quiz on chapter 1. I haven’t told the class yet, that I’ll be out of town on Thursday.
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