Berkley Lectures

1.  http://webct.oregonvos.net:9000/SCRIPT/CIS121/scripts/serve_homeI happened to choose a lecture from: CS 61A The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, detailing decimal vs. Hexadecimal, vs. Binary, as well as converting between hex and decimal. I will admit, this lecture was completely over the top of my head. I am no where close to being a player in this league of discipline. I followed the lecture with great pleasure in the professor’s teaching style while trying to digest what he was saying. I feel that if I had a broader foundation in computer operating systems and higher math skills (I stopped at pre-calculus), I could grasp the information more.

I kind of felt like a deer in the headlights watching the material, taking notes on concepts I did not understand. I will try my best to get my feet wet in this discipline, as lectures from UC Berkley, are a bit intimidating!

 2. http://webct.oregonvos.net:9000/SCRIPT/CIS121/scripts/serve_homeFor the second lecture I chose to watch was the lecture on scheme interpreters from the following class: The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. I chose to watch the lecture for no particular reason, as I am new to all of this. However, I was able to correlate the meaning of programming values as commands, much like substituting functions in algebra. I still cannot grasp the total concept of what the lecture is teaching.I hope that we will not be in this realm of computer technology anytime soon, as I will be totally lost. I am fairly up to date with knowing how to use the internet, build small video and photo projects and I can actually type 85 words per minute, but that is about the extent of my computer knowledge. I hope I am not the only person in the class that feels inferior, because that is exactly how I felt after watching both of these lectures.

Hello world!

My first site I looked at delt with new desktop technology and new products @ http://www.engadget.com/category/desktops/. I found an interesting blog talking about Acer, the manufacturer who seems to have moved up quickly in the affordable pc market. One note of interest concerning Acer’s alleged patent infringement of HP, was relevent with recent sales. Acer led the industry in growth last quarter and is on track to surpass Dell as #2 (according to IDC).

Another site I found a very interesting blog concerning the privacy of wi fi hot spots, and how your screen can or could be viewed by another user at a considerable distance away. http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/04/20/2048258.shtml

Ok, I’ll admit…I had no idea what a rss reader was. I subscribed to the service Google offered, choosing 6 news feeds and 9 sports feeds. Very cool indeed. All the information I care about comes right to me with out having to look for it. Now I need to find one with fishing updates!