How Computers Work

JSR Notes:

- More images/videos.
- More hands on with the insides of a computer.
- Avoid long stretches at the white board - can lose attention.
- In fact, avoid too long stretches of instruction, even around the tables.
- "Field trips?" Either inside teched-up ISB or outside.

JSR Instructional Resources:

Dresden fab visit and Dresden Global Foundaries fab video:
(Maybe best to be saved for Day 3.)

And if can't go to Dresen, go next door to see the IT guys, and the server room too.

• How Computers Work Day 1 - Data & Code Sets
         Diagram from the white board summarizing the movement and forms of 0s and 1s
  
• How Computers Work Day 2 - Bits/Bytes & Memory/Storage
         Summary Diagram (****use for all days)
  
• How Computers Work Day 3 - Reading & Writing Data To Devices
  
• How Computers Work Day 4 - Cache & CPU
  
• How Computers Work Day 5 - More On Computer Speed & Networks
  
  

• Maintenance of Computers (thorough coverage - but very dated)
  
  

On-line Resources (also dated/old-school, but classic nevertheless):

• CNet.com For Tech Reviews & Other Tech Information
  
  
• HowStuffWorks for searches like
  • "Computer Tour"
  • "The Silicon We Make"
  • "How To Install RAM"
  
  

Assignments:

• Five via homework assignments, plus one test, and possibly a quiz half-way through.
  
  
• How Computers Work quiz (??)