Yanni's COMP170 Page

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Special Interest Items

 

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 Interesting and useful links, that are not explicitly part of the course.
 
COMP170 Course Outline (.doc) (.pdf)
Jan's Illustrated Computer Literacy 101 (* excellent! *) (click here)

Quizzes & Exams

 

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 Dates, times, and any special comments for Quizzes and Exams.
 
Quiz #1 - done
Midterm - Chapters 1-5 - done
Quiz #2 - Chapters 6, 7, & 8 - done
FINAL EXAM
Chapters 6,7,8,11,12,Trends
including Excel and HTML

Labs &
Exercises 

 

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 Small "in-class" lab and workbook exercises (may, or may not, be required for submission).
 
Items here will reflect exercises mentioned by Andrew.

Assignments &
Projects

 

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 Term assignments and projects (may, or may not, be team submissions, see below).
 
Items here will reflect assignments mentioned by Andrew.

Lecture Notes &
Reference Materials

 

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 Support material for lectures and course references.
 
"Discovering Computers" Online Resources (click)
Chapter 1 - Interactive Timeline (click)
Chapter 2 - Intr. to Web (.pdf)
Chapter 3 - Applications: System Software (.pdf)
Chapter 3 - Applications: Word Processing (.pdf)
Chapter 3 - Spreadsheets and Databases (.pdf)
Chapter 4 - Components of the System Unit (.pdf)
Chapter 5 - Input Devices (.pdf)
Chapter 6 - Output Devices (.pdf)
Chapter 7 - Storage Devices (Part 1) - Physical and Magnetic (.pdf)
Chapter 7 - Storage Devices (Part 2) - Optical and Rem. Memory (.pdf)
Chapter 8 - System Software & Operating Systems (Part 1) (.pdf)
Chapter 8 - System Software & Operating Systems (Part 2) (.pdf)
Chapter 11 - Society, Security, & Ethics (in class discussion, no posting)
Chapter 12 - Security (.pdf)
Chapter Extra - Trends (.pdf)

File of the Week

 

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 Links to useless and irrelevant (but fun?) pages.
 
Happy Tree Friends (cuteness and blood) (click)
Mr. Push Me (just to waste time) (click)
Speech Synthesizer Program (download)
Puzzle Game: Cyclanoid (ZD Net)
Band-O-Matic (random band name generator) (click here)
IceBox (well-produced, funny animated shorts) (click here)
United Media Newspaper comics: Peanuts, Dilbert, etc. (click here)

Check back later, because you never know what might be here.

Yanni  :)