Week One

Having read the blackboard unit recourses I was able to look back on the first week's lecture which I found very handy because it contained valuable information for a person starting this course. This information included the course outline: assignments, where I can obtain information, student responsibilities and plagiarism.
I found the first lecture's information more useful to me than the 2nd, though likely because I'm already partially computer literate. The tutorial was also great, learning all about blogger and the blackboard.

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READING ACTIVITIES

PC Lube and TuneMy first reading task included directing me to http://www.yale.edu/pclt/default.htm to read about PC Lube and Tune (PCLT). This site is to enable any person to access knowledge concerning tutorials, computing technical subjects and introductions. They author of the site explains this as a similar tool to a service station where the user is able to gain knowledge. The website contains specific understandings of PC Hardware, handling Java and C#, Graphics user interphace, computers/video files and HDTV, technical perspective on The Microsoft Antitrust Case, the tragedy of Microsoft and Java, chracter encoding and web standards, microsoft.NET framework, distributed applications and the web, das boot, the storm before the COM, introduction to SNA, introduction to TCP/IP and APPC and the Ethernet. All of these are directed through hyperlinks from the homepage, which I found very easy to access because it had a clean format.

How Stuff Works http://www.howstuffworks.com/pc.htm. This website offers excellent information to those who are beginners to computers. I have a little experience using computers, leaving this website somewhat repeatative. Though later down the page, the information begins to become more specific concerning the computers hardware and what their functions are. This a little interesting to me because there were 1 or 2 hardware components that taught me more about them.