CS 101 Introduction to Computers

Useful Content Resources

• Animations of Basic CS
• A College Student's Guide to Computers in Education this is talking about how people use computers to learn, not just "Education Majors"
• File Management
  • File Systems on Windows
  • File Permissions
  • Good page about Computer Units of capacity
• Spreadsheets
  • Short video on Visicalc
  • Picture of paper spreadsheet, link to VisiCalc page
• Ewaste
  • How E-waste Works
• Email
  • Spam Skit
  • How email works
• Photographs
  • GIF/JPG/PNG what's the difference?
  • PNG, GIF, JPEG, which one should you use?
  • Chris Hadfield's Snapshots from Space
• Security
  • Red light cameras
  • Passwords don't work!
• Hardware
  • Watch circuit boards be recycled
  • Very nice video about "how the CPU works" "In One Lesson"
  • how computers add numbers "in one lesson"
  • Simulation of a 6502 chip
  • how barcodes work "in one lesson"
  • But How Do It know? a book about computers
  • How plasma displays work
  • 3-d printers!
  • 3-D printer that creates glass objects
  • an article on stereolithography
• Bit Literacy
  • 5 Best To-do List managers (Lifehacker)
  • Middle Ages Tech Support
  • 9 Best To-do list apps for 2014 (Forbes)
• Network / Internet
  • What happens when hackers hijack our smart devices
  • Thread on Reddit about DDOS
  • The Keys to the Internet
  • All the underseas cables that carry the Internet 2 min
  • Public map of US Internet Backbone
  • 20 things I learned about Browsers and the Web
  • 12 Free Cloud storage services
  • Google Fiber and the digital divide in Kansas City
  • What is a Wiki?
• Social Issues of Networking
  • Useful information about preventing / fixing Identity Theft
  • Different kinds of malware
  • Walking and Texting (3 minute video)
  • A short (14 min) video on what SOPA and PIPA really mean
  • Danger Zones on the Net! a good article
• Data Representation
  • Big Data
  • Binary to Decimal and vice versa tutorials
• HTML
  • W3Schools.com very good site for trying HTML out!
• Alice
  • Alice Workbook
  • Alice programming tutorials
  • Article about the person who created Alice, Randy Pausch
• Lab Information
      Practice Tests and Topic Lists
• Some useful videos