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| Welcome to Module 6. This week we are leaving software behind and beginning with our look into Hardware: The CPU and Storage.
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| Take Quiz 2! This quiz will NOT cover anything from this module, this week's lecture (Lecture 5), or anything from Chapter 4. Instead, Quiz 2 will cover the material found in:
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| Chapter 3 in your textbook
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| I will supply a study guide for you- look for it Tuesday evening or early Wednesday. If you wish to use it during the quiz, remember that you should print it out beforehand.
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| The quiz will open Thursday, Feb. 26th at noon. It will be open until Sunday, March 1st at midnight. That's a good chunk of time, so take the quiz whenever it is convenient for you. Just be sure that you are prepared because you only get one chance. Remember that you must also use the Respondus browser to take this quiz.
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| View Lecture 5! This week we will be diving into Chapter 4 and tinkering with some hardware- old computer parts. I will let you know when this week's lecture is available to view.
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| No Discussion Board this week. There's plenty of other things going on I think...
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| This week's links to review:
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| Netbooks! The tiny laptops with the tiny processors and miniscule amounts of memory that are changing the way people around the globe think about computing. Info on netbooks-
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| Why does Microsoft hate them so much?
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| But what about companies who operate in the cloud?
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| And in the opposite direction- Intel's new chip can process 1 trillion calculations a second!
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| Link to an online binary to english converter-
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