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Computer Literacy 1 Slides 2008-2009

Last updated: 26/11/08

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Lecture	Day	Date	Who	Title	6-up notes	Other Handout?
Week 1
1	Mon	22/9/2008		Introduction; highlights; why CL is important	notes; slides	articles
2	Tue	23/9/2008		Chips with everything: History	slides
3	Thu	25/9/2008		Trends	slides;	assignment 1
Week 2
4	Mon	29/9/2008		Bits, bytes , units and measures	slides
5	Tue	30/9/2008		Research using the internet	slides
6	Thu	2/10/2008		The Operating System	slides
Week 3
7	Mon	6/10/2008		About shells and command lines	slides
8	Tue	7/10/2008		Word Processing and Excel	slides
9	Mhu	9/10/2008		A history of Video Games	slides
Week 4
10	Mon	13/10/2008		Video Consoles - Next Generation	slides
11	Tue	14/10/2008		Computer Animations in Games and Film	slides
12	Thu	16/10/2008		Collaborative Computing	slides
Week 5
13	Mon	20/10/2008		Computer Games in Education	slides	Paper to read
14	Tue	21/10/2008		General: Computer Aided Learning	slides	assignment 2
15	Thu	23/10/2008		Discussion: Computer Aided Learning (Practical1)	slides
Week 6
16	Mon	27/10/2008		A Bug's Life	slides
17	Tue	28/10/2008		Database 1	slides	Info about Assigmnet 1
18	Thu	30/10/2008		Database 2	slides
Week 7
19	Mon	3/11/2008		Social Networks Online	slides
20	Tue	4/11/2008		Video	slides
21	Thu	6/11/2008		YouTube and other Video presenting Platforms	slides
Week 8
22	Mon	10/11/2008		Speech recognition	slides
23	Tue	11/11/2008		Eye Tracking and EMA in Computer Science	slides
24	Thu	13/11/2008		Security and Censorship	slides	assignment 3
Week 9
25	Mon	17/11/2008		Discussion Practical 2	slides
26	Tue	18/11/2008		Artificial Intelligence	slides
27	Thu	20/11/2008		Second Life	slides
Week 10
28	Mon	24/11/2008		No Lecture
29	Tue	25/11/2008		Second Life, Judy Robertson and Nicole Cargyll-Kipar, MultiMedia Design Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh	Slides will follow
30	Thu	27/11/2008		Ph@ttSessionz, Christoph Draxler, IPS, University of Munich		Assignment3 due Friday 28th, 4pm!
Week 11
31	Mon	1/12/2008		Revision (Q and A)	Exam dates: 15/12/2008 9.30 - 11.00 (in the morning), St. Leonards Land Gym 3!