Hands-On Computing:Looking Under the Hood of Your Everyday Computing
Project Challenge, Spring 2013
Project Challenge is a program in the winter months that brings area high school students to campus on Saturday mornings for 5 weeks to study a course of their choice. For the eighth year, a course is being offered in the Clarkson University Internet Teaching Laboratory (ITL) called "Hands-On Computing: Looking Under the Hood of Your Everyday Computing". This year's course will be taught by Clarkson computer science professor Jeanna Matthews and Ph.D. student Wenjin Hu.
- Class Topics
- Day 1 - PC Hardware Components, Buying/Building
- Day 2 - Operating System Basics, OS Install, LiveCDs, VirtualBox, Web Server, Simple Webpage, Anatomy of a URL
- Day 3 - Computer Programming
- Day 4 - Computer Programming, Computer Security
- Day 5 - Computer Security, Computer Networking, Databases, Computer Careers
- Day 2 - Burn LiveCDs/LiceDVDs
LiveCDs: Ubuntu (current), Fedora - Day 3-4 - Computer Programming, Source Code, Programming Languages, Open Source Software
Wikipedia: Source Code
Wikipedia: Hello World Program
Linux Kernel Source
Mozilla Source
Wikipedia: GNU General Public License
OpenOffice
- Day 4-5 - Security
Computer Viruses
Auditing your computer, establishing a "baseline"/looking for suspicious differences
Useful tools: netstat -an
- Day 5 - Network Trace Analysis
The students will learn about network trace analysis and simple network protocols.IP addresses and DNS, HTTP vs. HTTPS, RFCs
Useful tools: Wireshark,ping, traceroute, netstat, nslookup
- Day 5 - Databases and SQL, Computing Careers
The students will learn about organizing data and designing, implementing, and querying databases.
SQLzoo.net
Database Privacy
Occupational Outlook Handbook
Fastest growing occupations A Bachelors Degree in Computer Science would prepare you for 5 of the top 30!
Money Magazine's Best Jobs in America 2010
