Our first session will include a discussion about client-server relationships.
You might want to read these items to prepare yourself for session one.

Preparations for clients session

on pioneers

First, watch this video about Grace Hopper, one of the pioneers of the technologies we will use this semester.

on clients

1. How Operating Systems Work by Dave Coustan and Curt Franklin, How Stuff Works. Look especially at the distinction between single-user, multi-tasking and multi-user operating systems
2. Introduction to Client Server Networks by Bradley Mitchell, Lifewire
3. and at a discussion about file transfer protocol,

on Open Source

read What does open source mean? in How Stuff Works. This is part of the next session's discussion of operating systems.

Other items relevant to today's class

1. John von Neumann and the configuration of the computer
2. This computer changed the world—and you’ve never heard about it
3. Computer programming once had much better gender balance than it does today. What went wrong?
4. Overlooked No More: Karen Sparck Jones, Who Established the Basis for Search Engines
5. 10 women in science and tech who should be household names

19 January Lecture | preps | intro | clients | open source