Ed-101

Computer Boot Camp

Syllabus

Students who elect to participate in the Computer Boot Camp option of the Ed-101 class are expected to build a computer in lieu of writing a class paper. They will be provided with the hardware components and the software. Those students who do NOT have their own computer may elect to borrow their resulting computer for the duration of their enrollment at NMT by completing the appropriate “Property Receipt” form. The students will work in teams with one student who does not own a computer pairing with students who do own a computer. The grade will be determined by the successful construction of a computer that dual boots both MicroSoft XP and Linux and also executes the supplied software.

The class starts on Monday, August 20, 2007, which is the day before classes start. It lasts from 9:00 to 5:00. The remaining days of that week, Tuesday thru Friday, the lab will be open from 8:00 to 12:00 to allow you to catch up on any work you did not finish the previous day. You may come and go as your schedule in other classes permit. From 1:00 to 5:00, there will be class on additional software topics. You are expected to attend when you do not have other classes.

The student must meet with the instructor sometime Friday afternoon to demonstrate that their computer works. This will determine their grade.

The following software will be available on CDs:

1. MicroSoft XP, MS-Office, McAfee, Putty, Firefox

2. Fedora Core-5, Firefox, OpenOffice

3. Diagnostics - Disk, Memory

Tenative Schedule (realizing it will be changed on Monday)

Monday August 20, 2007

9:00-10:00 Curtis Verploegh

1. Safety

2. Electrical Issues

3. Eye Goggles

4. Static Electricity

5. Wrist Strip

10:00-11:00

Inventory – administrator password, team composition

1. Chassis

2. Screws and Stand-offs

3. Power Supply

4. Motherboard

5. CPU and Fan

6. Memory

7. Disk and cable

8. Floppy and cable

9. CD-drive and cable

10.Video Card

11.Ethernet Card and cable

12.Monitor

13.Keyboard

14.Mouse

15.Wrist Strap

16.Screwdriver

Property Receipt form – include serial numbers

11:00-12:00

Identify the hardware components and differences between:

1. SATA vs ATA vs IDE

2. SIMM vs DDR vs DDR2

3. CPU vs Motherboard vs BIOS

Sources for manuals – online

12:00-1:00 Lunch at Fidel

1:00-5:00

PC assembly

Diagnostics - disk and memory

5:00 Convocation at Macey

Tuesday

1:00-3:00 MicroSoft XP - dual boot, partitions, fdisk

3:00-4:00 MicroSOft Office + McAfee + Putty + Firefox

4:00-5:00 Email client + SquirrelMail

Wednesday

1:00-4:00 Linux - FC5, OpenOffice, Firefox, Antivirus, Updates

4:00-5:00 Linux - Ftp/sftp, SSH, file server

Thursday

1:00-3:00 Sys Admin - defrag, scandisk

3:00-5:00 Network

Friday

1:00-3:00 Applications

3:00-4:00 Security - spyware, passwords, firewall

4:00-5:00 Web page