using the Internet and e-mail. web publishing
- look at Web Law FAQ for the parts re: publishing
HTML documents
Intranets , AI - artificial intelligenceVR - virtual reality , robotics

Overview of basic computer concepts

Chapter 1
 

 http://www.glencoe.com/norton/online/fundamentals/index.html

1. hardware
2. software
3. data (which becomes information)
4. people (operators, users)

 

Processor (CPU)

microprocessors

circuit board

motherboard

Memory (RAM)

kilobyte (KB) 1,000 bytes - a thousand bytes

megabyte (MB) 1,000,000 bytes - a million bytes

gigabyte (GB) 1,000,000,000 bytes - a billion bytes

Input Devices 

(keyboard, trackball, joysticks, scanners, digital cameras, microphone, mouse, light pen) 
and Output Devices (monitor, printer, modem, speakers)

Storage devices (hard drive, floppy drive, CD ROM, DVD, tape drive)

operating systems software

application software

Norton's questions on-line at the end of Chapter One
 http://www.glencoe.com/norton/online/
fundamentals/chapter1/review/index.html

Some of the more common types of RAM are: "

• DRAM 
• SDRAM 
• DDR RAM 
• EDO RAM 
• SRAM 

Dynamic RAM (DRAM) is perhaps one of the most common types of RAM available. DRAM is used to  store information that is being passed around a computer and between peripherals. The information is not  actually saved, it is temporarily stored in memory until the curent process has finished. 

DRAM needs a way to remember the information it is storing, and the process by which it achieves this is a large contributor to it being known as dynamic RAM. DRAM must be constantly refreshed, not just every now and then, but repeatedly each second. If this process did not take place DRAM would not be able to hang on to the information it is storing. 

The reason DRAM needs to be refreshed in this way is because in effect it stores information via electrical charges. These electrical charges weaken, similarly to a normal battery, if the electrical charge becomes too weak then the information will be lost from memory. 

EDO DRAM is an abbreviation for Extended Data Out Dynamic Random Access Memory, EDO RAM is therefore a type of DRAM. So what on earth does that mean?? Well the name gives us a little clue, albeit  kind of cryptic - the Extended Data Out name relates to the fact that EDO RAM does not have to finish processing the first bit before continuing to the next one. Remember that a bit is actually a Binary Digit and  this is how information is stored in memory. 

EDO RAM is faster than its standard counterpart DRAM. The improvement comes from the fact that as soon as the location of the first cell is discovered, EDO RAM will begin looking for the next address.   EDO represented an improvement in performance, however, it now has a superior successor in the form of SDRAM. 

SDRAM is an abbreviation for Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory. SDRAM can be considered a replacement for the earlier EDO DRAM. SDRAM is actually synchronised with the computers  system clock> It is able to increase performance by taking advantage of interleaving, which is the process whereby the SDRAM module is able to access a cell at the same time as finishing one. 

SDRAM also works on the assumption that most of the time the data required by the CPU will actually be in  sequence - rather than a totally random distribution. Therefore SDRAM will stay on its current row (bits are addressed through rows and columns) and move across each column reading each bit along the way. 

Productivity Software

(Application)
Software

• Word Processing Software
• Spreadsheet Programs
• Database Management Systems
• Presentation Programs

Microsoft Powerpoint Overview
 http://www.microsoft.com/catalog/display.asp?site=127&subid=22&pg=1

Norton's questions on-line at the end of Chapter One
 http://www.glencoe.com/norton/online/
fundamentals/chapter6/review/index.html

Chapter 2
 http://www.glencoe.com/norton/online/fundamentals/chapter2/index.html
In this chapter, you’ll find out what data is, how it differs from information, and what form it takes in the computer. Then, you’ll explore the two processing components: the central processing unit (CPU) and memory. You’ll also learn about the most important factors affecting a computer’s speed. Finally, you’ll look at the microprocessors made by the biggest chip manufacturers, with an  emphasis on the families of chips from Intel and Motorola. 

bits and bytes, page 43

Powerpoint presentation on Chapter 2
 http://ilearn.senecac.on.ca/homepage/Ola.Cholkan/sms/sms4/chapter2/sld001.htm

Installing RAM in a computer
 http://www.personal.riverusers.com/~mikemoss_gila/ram_install.html

Norton's questions on-line at the end of Chapter Two
 http://www.glencoe.com/norton/online/
fundamentals/chapter2/review/index.html

EXCEL LESSON 3 
 http://ilearn.senecac.on.ca/homepage/Ola.Cholkan/sms/sms4/sms4.html

   1.Complete tutorial pages 54 through 77. Print as requested. 
   2.Application projects #4, 5 and 7 on pages 82 and 83. Print as requested. 

Doing math with formulas and functions

Powerpoint presentation on Chapter 3
Interacting with your Computer
 http://ilearn.senecac.on.ca/homepage/Ola.Cholkan/sms/sms5/chapter3/sld001.htm

Input:
 - 4 types of terminals
 - digital cameras
 - a web site with a  chart showing all the main lines of digital cameras on the market, their prices and FABs
 - CRW labs  Product Feature Ratings & Comparisons of Digital Cameras
 - good info at http://www.digitalcamerastore.com/
 - scanning devices
 - voice input devices

Output Devices:: 
 Monitors, Printers, Plotters, Voice
Printers
 - web site http://www.4printers.com/which lists all the major printer manufacturers, retailers, supplies and accessories - allows you to follow links to home pages for each manufacturer

Norton's questions on-line at the end of Chapter Three
 http://www.glencoe.com/norton/online/
fundamentals/chapter3/review/index.html

Test includes knowing things in Windows Explorer,  and covers the work done in Excel 97 labs 3 and 4 . 

Computing Essentials chapters 1,2,3,4,6.

Peter Norton's ppt for Chpt 8
 http://ilearn.senecac.on.ca/homepage/Ola.Cholkan/sms/sms10/chapter8/sld001.htm

- Professor Richardson has a number of resources to explain the Internet
- at another college, Richardson teaches a course titled The Internet and its Impact on Society
There are several topics discussed in this other course that would be appropriate to note in discussing The Internet for SMS 202
 - Easy to follow summary of the History of the Net, followed by Q&A with Dr. Vinton Cerf - highly recommended to read
 - Powerpoint presentation by T.R.  History of the Internet
 - Link to a " timeline" showing the dates of key events in the
  Internet's history written by Robert H Zakon&nbsen by Robert H Zakon 
 - the Internet framework, how the computers are connected 
   Link to an article by "The" person who developed the WWW,Tim Berners-Lee
 - the World Wide Web Consortium  http://www.w3.org/ W3C
 - extensive glossary of Internet terms  http://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html

Norton's questions on-line at the end of Chapter Eight
 http://www.glencoe.com/norton/online/
fundamentals/chapter8/review/index.html

  http://ilearn.senecac.on.ca/homepage/Ola.Cholkan/sms/sms11/sms11.html

if you want a head start on doing this lab, go here to get a sheet laying out the questions and the answers to a few of them
 http://ilearn.senecac.on.ca/homepage/Tim.Richardson/SMS202/financialfunctionslab.htm

this is due in class next week (March 22)

start work on Templates and Macros Lab  http://ilearn.senecac.on.ca/homepage/Ola.Cholkan/sms/sms10/sms10.html