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Tools for Information Literacy ① Intro Week

In place of a Monday lecture, look over these typical lecture pages

Watch

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

Glance over

  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. What does open source mean? in How Stuff Works

Other relevant short articles you may find interesting

  1. What Is a “Computer Bug,” and Where Did the Term Come From?
  2. This computer changed the world—and you've never heard about it
  3. What Are Teletypes, and Why Were They Used with Computers?
  4. Computer programming once had much better gender balance than it does today. What went wrong?
  5. 10 women in science and tech who should be household names
  6. Overlooked No More: Karen Sparck Jones, Who Established the Basis for Search Engines
  7. Does a VPN Really Make Your Online Activity Private?