Lesson 5 Computers in Society – We explored the impact that computers had in the workplace, education, and society. We explored common misconceptions such as that computers eliminate jobs.
Lesson 4 Network Fundamentals – We learned that a firewall is a software or hardware-based security system that controls network traffic by analyzing data packets to determine whether they should pass through to your PC or not. We learned about three generations of firewalls and looked at the Windows Defender Firewall installed on our PCs.
Lesson 4 Network Fundamentals – We learned about FTP, SMTP, and DNS protocols. We learned to distinguish between the Internet which is the global network that allows any computer connected to to communicate with all others and the web which is a specific way of accessing information over the Internet. We learned to distinguish between web browsers, hyperlinks, and URLs.
We worked on a program to open a file for reading lines of quotes. We used the “with open” statement and a read statement. We are working on getting the program to read a file on the Mac.
