Monmouth U is closed BUT we will still continue online!

One of the blessings and curses of the internet age is that we can
continue our work and learning remotely even when physical locations
are shut down. By now you should have heard from MUs emergency
notification system that the school is closing at 2:30. We will do a
number of things ASYNCHRONOUSLY so that our learning continues almost
at pace as if we had the actual class. This means you can do this
assignment at your own pace, you don't have to do it from 6-715 but
since you already have that time blocked out, that might be a good
time to do it!

First, you can catch up with all the lecture notes at:
http://zorak.monmouth.edu/~posten

Download and go through all of them through 'Storage'

Then do the following:

Read up on the Dr. Math talks Binary:
http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/54311.html

Read How Stuff Work's article on Bits and Bytes:
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/bytes.htm

For extra info, check out Joel Spolski's intro to Unicode for programmers:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

What's inside my computer?
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/inside-computer.htm
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/motherboard.htm
http://aroundcny.com/technofile/texts/compuspeed90.html
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/computer-memory.htm
http://www.howstuffworks.com/pc.htm

Be ready to discuss the different parts of a computer, the different
types of memory, how much faster computers are today than just a few
years ago, how we rate computer speed and memory capacity, and the
difference between primary and secondary storage. Let me know if you
have any questions!

Sam