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CSC 152: The Week beginning January 24
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- Homework:
- Convert the numbers of your birthday to binary.
For example,
| Month | Day |
| September | 6 |
| 9 | 6 |
| 1001 | 110 |
- Estimate the number of bytes in a book you have
recently read. There is approximately one byte per
letter, space or punctuation mark. For purposes of
this exercise you should ignore any illustrations,
photos, etc. Roughly how many floppy disks would it
take to hold a file with this many bytes? You should
include some details of your calculation.
Email me your answers.
Due: Jan. 31
- Reading:
Discovering Computers 2000 (Shelly, Cashman
and Vermaat) 3.11-3.13 and the appendix A.1-A.4.
- Monday:
Lecture: Bits and Bytes.
(See the slide show on the web
or download the PowerPoint file.)
- Wednesday:
Project 2 in Microsoft Windows 98: Essential Concepts
and Techniques (Shelly, Cashman and Forsythe).
Copying a file from one floppy to another.
- Friday:
Project 1 in Microsoft Word 97: Introductory Concepts
and Techniques (G. B. Shelly, T. J. Casman, and M. E.
Vermaat).