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.
