This week's schedule
Week
Lectures & In-Class Work
Assignments & Exams
8/18-8/19
DAY 1: Course Overview & Web Page Design DAY 1: Assignment 1 (w): Develop specs for a web page
8/23-8/26

DAY 1: HTML
Review Assignment 1

DAY 2: CSS
Use CSS to format the Bill of Rights

DAY 1: Revise Assignment 1: Turn in the revision, the draft and the peer review on Day 2

DAY 2: Assignment 2: Develop web page per Assignment 1 specs

8/30-9/2

DAY 1: Networks & FTP
FTP web page to CS directory

DAY 2: Telnet and Network Security
Use pico to modify web page per critiques

DAY 1: Assignment 3 (w): Critique class web pages

DAY 2: Assignment 4 (w): Modify page per critiques and write responses to critiques

9/6-9/9

DAY 1: Labor Day Holiday

DAY 2: File systems
Stub-in directories and files for future Assignments, Intro to Algorithms

DAY 2: Turn in Assignment 4 along with the critique of your page (Assignment 3).
Study for next week's test.
9/13-9/16

DAY 1: Writing Center and Technical Writing Guidelines

DAY 2: Psuedo-Code and Flow Charts

DAY 1: Test 1

DAY 2: Assignment 5 (w): A narrative description of the procedure that the ant should follow to gather the food on the checkerboard.

9/20-9/23

DAY 1: Review & revision and implement Assignment 5

DAY 2: Web Page Critique, Distribute boe-bots & discuss BOE components

DAY 1: Assignment 6: Create flow-chart version of Assignment 5

DAY 2: Assignment 7: Revise web page based on in-class critique.

9/27-9/30

DAY 1: Intro to the Boe-bot
Basic Competency Check-Off

DAY 2: Basic Programming
Basic Competency Check-Off

DAY 1: Assignment 8 (w): How the Boebot works

10/4-10-5
DAY 1: Project Guidelines, Examples from last semester
Basic Competency Check-Off
Fall Break WRF
DAY 1: Assignment 9 (w): Write Project 1 Proposal
10/11-10/14
DAY 1: LEDs, Review of proposals
Boe-bot project work
DAY 2: Current, Ohm's Law, Servos
DAY 1: Assignment 10: Revise proposal & post to web. Turn in draft and peer review.
10/18-10/21
DAY 1: Speakers and arrays
Boe-bot project work
DAY 2: Whiskers and buttons
Boe-bot project work
DAY 1: Assignment 11 (w): Servo and Speaker synopsis
10/25-10/28
DAY 1: Photoresistor
Boe-bot project work
DAY 2: Basic IR transmission and detection, IR Communication
Boe-bot project work
DAY 2: Assignment 12 (w): Photoresistor and IR transmission and detection synopsis
11/1-11/4
DAY 1: Guest Lecture: Nathan Batson, UNCA Senior.
Boe-bot project work
DAY 2: Boe-bot project work
DAY 2: Test 2
11/08-11/11
DAY 1: Project 1 presentations
Project 2 Groups Selected
DAY 2: Project 2 work
Video Editing Lab Tour
DAY 1: AMS Demo: Attach pen to Boe-bot and develop drawing program.
11/15-11/18
DAY 1:AMS visit
DAY 2: Guest Lecture: Mr. Russell Lindsay, Forensic Engineer.
In class assignment: create a chart associating distance in inches to servo rotation and a chart mapping distance travelled to pulsewidth repetition. Thanks to Jeromy, Michael and David for their example.
 
11/22-11/25
DAY 1: AMS visit
T-Day Break WRF
11/29-12/2
DAY 1:Project 2 work: Algorithm Revision
DAY 2: AMS visit
 
Exam Section 1: Exam Wednesday, 12/08, at 9:00
Section 2: Exam Thursday, 12/09, at 9:00
Project 2 Presentations
 
last modified 11/08/2004