Core Studies 5: Experimental Section

Syllabus

1. Using the computer
   • Introduction to Windows. Disks, files, directory structure.
   • Using Notepad to create and edit files. Email.

2. The Internet and HTML
   • World Wide Web. Browsers, search engines.
   • HTML syntax, hyperlinks, creating web pages.
   • Analog and digital communication.
   • Modems, binary coding, error checking.
   • LANs, WANs, TCP/IP.

3. Number Theory and Applications to Data Coding
   • Identification codes, bar codes, error detection.
   • Number systems, especially base two and hexadecimal. Conversion between number systems.
   • ASCII codes, parity checks
   • Encryption and decoding.
   • Prime numbers. Sieve of Eratosthenes.
   • Prime factorization. Modular arithmetic. Public key cryptography.

4. Programming in JavaScript
   • Embedding JavaScript code in Web pages, dialogs, event handlers.
   • Variables, data types, assignment statements, expressions and operators.
   • functions; Boolean conditions; if-then-else statements.
   • For and while loops.