1. Course Overview

2. COMPUTER FLUENCY JOURNAL Objective (6.3): Students will record new information learned throughout the course. Entries from the journal will be shared at the beginning of class as a means of review. Assignment steps: –You will begin a journal that tracks the progress of your computer fluency throughout this course. –For each lecture, you are to enter the date and a fact or bit of new information that you did not know before entering this course. Please bring them to class each time we meet. –You will create your entries using Microsoft Word. Use the Insert Date and Time menu option to track every entry. For example: Friday, October 29, 2005 Today we discussed computer history. I learned that the first computer programmer was a woman, Ada Lovelace.

4. The Basics Objective 7.2 Why study this course? http://faculty.winthrop.edu/garrisonc/CSCI 101/Spring06/Slides/slides.htmhttp://faculty.winthrop.edu/garrisonc/CSCI 101/Spring06/Slides/slides.htm What is a computer?

5. Computer Data Information

6. Hardware Software A computer programmer Users

8. History Objectives 7.3, 7.4, 7.5 Early history Five generations Internet Personal computers

9. Charles Babbage Ada Lovelace Electronic Digital computers Before 1950’s

10. Generations 1 st Generation: Vacuum Tubes 2 nd Generation: Transistors 3 rd Generation: Integrated Circuits 4 th Generation: Microprocessor 5 th Generation: Intelligent computers

11. Internet Predecessor Dr. Tim Berners-Lee Marc Andreessen

12. PC History Apple IBM Bill Gates Sole Source

13. Assignment Quiz at beginning of class on week 1 material Write a couple sentences that describe what Herman Hollerith contributed to computer history Start Computer Fluency Journal