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COURSE SEGMENT Q1.
Month	Date	Room [time]	Topic
August	20	Lab131 [12:40-2:30]	Course Demands & Requirements; Assessing Student Backgrounds; Establishing student e-mail and unix accounts; Overview of Laboratory Facilities [see LSU computers]; Middleton 101, 232, 241 CEBA 1302 [soon also Student Union and Chemistry Library]
	21	218	Basic Computer Architectures; Common Operating Systems; Common Compilers and Interpreters
	26	218	Bits, bytes, bauds and powers of 2; Unicode and IEEE Arithmetic Standards; [see data types]
	27	Lab131 [12:40-2:30]	Introduction to the Unix Operating System; Introduction to the "vi" Editor [see tutorial]
	28	218	IEEE representation of floating point numbers; [see floating point]
September	2	218
	3	Lab131 [12:40-2:30]	Perfecting use of the "vi" Editor; Introduction to HTML
	4	218
	9	218
	10	Lab131 [12:40-2:30]	Developing a Functional Homepage on the Web.
	11	218
	16	218
September	17	Lab131 [12:40-2:30]	EXAM #1

Relevant HyperText Links

	Evolving from Calculators to Computers (Early Computing at Los Alamos).
	vi Tutorial.