CSC 110 Fluency in Information Technology Chapter 1: Defining Information Technology

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CSC 110 Fluency in Information
TechnologyChapter 1 Defining Information
Technology

• Dr. Curry Guinn

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Quick Info

• Dr. Curry Guinn
• CIS 2045
• guinnc_at_uncw.edu
• www.uncw.edu/people/guinnc
• 962-7937
• Office Hours MTWRF 1000am-1100pm and by
  appointment
• Course HomePage
• http//people.uncw.edu/guinnc/courses/Fall08/110/C
  SC110.htm

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Who Are You

• Majors
• Clinical Research (5)
• Nursing (3)
• Marketing (2)
• Film Studies (2)
• Biology
• Communications Studies
• Computer Science
• Creative Writing
• English
• Finance
• History
• Operations Management

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Minors (2nd Majors)

• Information Technology (IT) 9
• Spanish (2)
• Biology
• Business
• Chemistry
• Communications Studies
• Film Studies
• Interior Decorating
• Psychology
• Theater

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Prior Computing Experience

• 20 out of 22 have taken something in computing
• High school keyboarding 13
• High school programming 6
• CSC/MIS 105 9
• MIS 213 5
• CSC 112 3
• Community college computer applications 1

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Do You Own A Computer

• Windows (not Vista) 17
• Vista 4
• Mac OS 1

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What is CSC 110?

• Fluency in Information Technology
• Focus on
• Skills
• Concepts
• Capabilities
• In practice
• Hands-on experience
• Understanding how computers work
• JavaScript programming

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Words, words, words

• The IT world has its own jargon
• Online glossaries
• http//www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0006024.html
• http//www.sharpened.net/glossary/
• Wikipedia has particularly good references on IT
  topics
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_access_memory

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Some of my favorites

• Ambimousterous
• Aunt Tillie
• Batman factor
• Bogosity
• Chickenboner
• Dancing frog
• Geekasm
• Kilogoogle

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Some of my favorites

• Ambimousterous
• Proficient using a mouse with both the left and
  right hand
• Aunt Tillie
• Batman factor
• Bogosity
• Chickenboner
• Dancing frog
• Geekasm
• Kilogoogle

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Some of my favorites

• Ambimousterous
• Aunt Tillie
• The quintessential naïve user that must be taken
  into account when designing software. To pass
  the Aunt Tillie test means the software is idiot
  proof.
• Batman factor
• Bogosity
• Chickenboner
• Dancing frog
• Geekasm
• Kilogoogle

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Some of my favorites

• Ambimousterous
• Aunt Tillie
• Batman factor
• A measure of electronic geekness that looks at
  the size and number of items attached to ones
  belt. For instance, having a Palm Pilot, a cell
  phone, and a walkie-talkie would grant you a very
  high Batman factor.
• Bogosity
• Chickenboner
• Dancing frog
• Geekasm
• Kilogoogle

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Some of my favorites

• Ambimousterous
• Aunt Tillie
• Batman factor
• Bogosity
• The degree to which something is bogus.
• Chickenboner
• Dancing frog
• Geekasm
• Kilogoogle

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Some of my favorites

• Ambimousterous
• Aunt Tillie
• Batman factor
• Bogosity
• Chickenboner
• A spammer generally thought to be a redneck in a
  darkened trailer with a litter of KFC chicken
  bones surrounding the workstation. (Link)
• Dancing frog
• Geekasm
• Kilogoogle

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Some of my favorites

• Ambimousterous
• Aunt Tillie
• Batman factor
• Bogosity
• Chickenboner
• Dancing frog
• A computer bug that will not manifest itself when
  someone else is watching over your shoulder.
  (Remember the Warner Brothers frog that sang and
  danced for only one person?)
• Geekasm
• Kilogoogle

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Some of my favorites

• Ambimousterous
• Aunt Tillie
• Batman factor
• Bogosity
• Chickenboner
• Dancing frog
• Geekasm
• Best understood by reading this quote by MIT
  professor Alex Slocum When they build a
  machine, if they do the calculations right, the
  machine works and you get this intense uhh
  just like a geekasm, from knowing that what you
  created in your mind and on the computer is
  actually doing what you told it to do.
• Kilogoogle

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Some of my favorites

• Ambimousterous
• Aunt Tillie
• Batman factor
• Bogosity
• Chickenboner
• Dancing frog
• Geekasm
• Kilogoogle
• Unit of measurement to indicate the number of
  hits made on a term by a Google search. UNCW
  has 756 kilogoogles.

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The Hard Stuff

• Computer hardware
• Monolithic vs. Component Approach

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Whats Inside?
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Inside the Tower

• A Motherboard is a printed circuit board.
• Contains most of the circuitry including the
  processor Intel Core 2 Duo is an example of a
  processor
• The motherboard also contains connections for
  additional devices
• Mouse
• Keyboard
• Hard drives
• CD-ROM

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A Motherboard
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Slots

• The motherboard may contain additional slots for
  cards
• Graphics cards, sound cards, internet cards.

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Why Almost All of Us Work on IBM PC Clones

• IBM, Intel Microsoft
• Apple Computer
• In 1977, Ken Olsen, the founder and CEO of
  Digital Equipment Corporation, said, "There is no
  reason for any individual to have a computer in
  his home."

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And now for the Lab

• Activity 1
• Open the control panel.
• Select Performance and Maintenance
• Select System
• Tells you what OS you are running
• And what Service Pack
• Chipset
• Speed?
• Ram?
• See if you can find your computers name

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Activity 2

• Defragmenting the hard drive
• Find the tool to defragment
• Choose Analyze
• Whats this mean?

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Memory
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Figure 1.12. A hard disk.
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How much faster?

• A 1-Ghtz machine can do one billion instructions
  per second
• A mechanical storage disk spins at around 7200
  RPM
• 8.3 ms to spin once
• We can do 120 disk accesses per second
• Hmm 120 vs. 1 billion
• You can do 8.3 million operations while during
  one disk access

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Activity 3

• Display Properties
• Screen Resolution
• How many pixels?
• Screen Saver
• Why were screen savers invented?

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Activity 4

• Taking Screenshots
• Print Screen button
• Try it
• Now open Paint (Under Start All Programs
  Accessories)
• Inside of Paint, choose Paste
• What if you just want a single window?
• Hit Alt-Print Screen

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Wrap-up

• Homework
• Read Chapter 2
• Chapter 1,2 Short Ans/Multiple Choice due
  1159pm, August 24 (Sunday)
• Use Blackboard to submit