Today we talked about the final few terms in our basic computer glossary. We learned about the paradox of booting and the solution to how the CPU can transfer files from the secondary storage to primary without initial instructions from the secondary storage. Then, we spent the rest of the period talking about the ASCII and binary coding. We learned about the columns and digits of a binary code. It can only go up to two values (0 and 1) in terms of the digits. I guess this is where they got the Latin root "bi"! It was eye-opening learning about how our everyday tool, the computer, truly works behind the screen (or in the CPU for that matter!)
The homework today was to update, validate, and post the Basic Computer Glossary. I need to continue finding small images to illustrate the last four glossary terms.
This blogging habit is really starting to stick in my brain. As Sean Covey said in his book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, "A habit can be formed in 30 days." Guess what? It's October now! It's actually been a month (two days short) since school started! Amazing!
As Alice Morse Earle said, "Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present." All the assignments I did in the previous unit is history (excluding the fact that I will have to apply my prev. knowledge..), today was a wonderful day, and tomorrow is a mystery as to what new things I will be learning..!
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