Week One - 25th February

Introduction to Computing
During our first week we have started by doing the following tasks-

• Using Blackboard on the Ecu Website
  
• Using Blackboard to access information for our classes


• Using the ECU website


• Sending and Receiving Emails on our ECU account


• Setting up our Blog / Journal


• Imageshack.us - Setting up our account


• Using the Print Screen Key on our Keyboard - To crop/edit images
  

Blackboard

Student Email

We have become exposed to the initial parts of our course and have started our first assessment which is in fact our blog. Every week we are required to fill in our blog and explain what we did throughout the tutorial and what we learnt during the lecture.

Lecture
During the lecture we learnt the following things:

• Course Introduction
• Course structure / what the course is made up of
• Learning outcomes
• The assignments we have to do and the amount of assignments
• About Plagiarism and how it isnt allowed
• Basic Computering

Readings

Reading 1 - PC Lube & Tune
This reading explained the basics of how to use your PC, it had many different topics you could learn about including - "An Introduction to PC Hardware", "The graphic User Interface" and "Web Standards"

Reading 2 - How Stuff Works
This reading was a guide to the working of a PC. It explained the different parts that make up the computer and how each part works to make up the entire system. Including what the CPU is and what RAM and memory are.