Week 1

Day 1

Introduction to the program

• Give a bird's eye view of the 6 quarters
• Start and the end
• The facilities

Laptop Distribution

• Ubuntu pre-installed laptop
• First homework: change the password and wallpaper

Day 2

Basics of Computers

• From huge rooms to personal computers
• Components of their own laptop (trackpad, keyboard, etc.)
• Hardware Components of Computer:
  • CPU
  • RAM
  • ROM
  • Motherboard
  • Bus
  • I/O Devices
• The Internet
  • Example of connecting laptops and "hopping" from one student laptop to another
  • "World Wide Web"
• Software:
  • System Software
    • Operating System (sits between Hardware and Application Software)
  • Application Software (with examples)
    • Games
    • Word Processing Software
    • Spreadsheets
    • Slides
    • SM apps

Homework: Download and install Chrome, find about Bill Gates and MS

Live Demo (with follow along)

• UI Overview of the Ubuntu (basic)
• Folders and Files
• Creating folders
• Understanding extensions: png, jpeg, mp3, mp4, pdf

Homework: create six folders, Q1...Q2. And some more inside Q1 for this quarter.

Day 3

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