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Week 1: Digital Circuits
Session 1: Wednesday, 1/25, Digital Circuits.
Session 2: Friday, 1/27, Lab 1: Digital Circuits.
Week 2: Binary and Hexidecimal numbers, binary addition
Session 3: Monday, 1/30, Binary and Hexadecimal numbers.
Session 4: Wednesday, 2/1, Binary addition.
Session 5: Friday, 2/3, Binary adders and Lab 2: practice with binary numbers, etc.
Week 3: Computer Architecture, the internet, HTML
Session 6: Monday, 2/6, Discussion of connections and "We are Egypt".
Session 7: Wednesday, 2/8, Computer architecture; the internet.
Session 8: Friday, 2/10, The world wide web, HTML
Week 4: Web pages, Tables, Computer Graphics
Session 9: Monday, 2/13, Lab 3: HTML, Web pages.
Session 10: Wednesday, 2/15, HTML Tables, Graphics
Session 11: Friday, 2/17, Graphics, Limits of CS
Week 5: Connections, Limits of CS, Review
Session 12: Monday, 2/20, Discussion of Sherry Turkle's talk and :Connections."
Session 13: Wednesday, 2/22, Limits of CS
Session 14: Friday, 2/24, Review for exam.
Week 6: Exam, Introduction to Computer Ethics
Session 15: Monday, 2/27, Midterm Exam
Session 16: Wednesday, 2/29, Introduction to computer ethics.
Session 17: Friday, 3/2, Ethical reasoning.
Week 7: Philoshophical Ethics
Session 18: Monday, 3/12, Philosophical ethics.
Session 19: Wednesday, 3/14, Ethical Theories.
Session 20: Friday, 3/16, More Ethical Theories; Analogies.
James Moore reading for Wednesday, 3/21
ACLU reading for Wednesday, 3/21
Week 8: Analogies, IT societies
Session 21: Monday, 3/19, Practice with Analogies
Session 22: Wednesday, 3/21, Ethics in IT societies.
Session 23: Friday, 3/23, Ethics in IT societies II.
News article 1: online suitor, for Monday, 3/26
News article 2: twitter in campaigns, for Monday, 3/26
News article 3: web of distractions, for Monday, 3/26
News article 4: fake blog, for Monday, 3/26
Week 9: IT societies
Session 24: Monday, 3/26, Plagiarism, IT societies in the news
Session 25: Wednesday, 3/28, Internet and Democracy
Session 26: Friday, 3/30, IT societies--friendship on the internet, presentation 1.
Week 10: IT and Society, Privacy
Session 27: Monday, 4/2, Internet and Democracy, Privacy.
Session 28: Wednesday, 4/4, IT societies--Facebook and privacy, presentation 2.
Week 11: Privacy
Session 29: Wednesday, 4/11, Privacy.
Session 30: Friday, 4/13, Data Mining and Privacy, presentation 3.
Week 12: Privacy, Intellectual Property
Session 31: Monday, 4/16, Privacy as a value.
Session 32: Wednesday, 4/18, Intellectual Property.
Week 13: Intellectual Property
Session 33: Monday, 4/23, Software Piracy, presentation 4.
Session 34: Wendesday, 4/25, Intellectual Property II.
Session 35: Friday, 4/27, Copyright, FOSS and Proprietary Software, presentation 5.
Week 14: Intellectual Property, Digital Order
Session 36: Monday, 4/30, Intellectual Property III.
Session 37: Wendesday, 5/2, Digital Order.
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Montserrat 113G--Ethics of Computing
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