Class Discussion on April the 28th.

This weeks discussion was on Number Systems and Codes. We discussed the history of the Liebniz's Language of Logic. Gottfried Wilhelm Liebniz was born in Germany in 1646. In 1676, he turned his focus to mathematics. His focus was on the binary number system. Ironically, for all of his work, he failed to make the connection between the famous 1666 essay and binary to the universal language of logic he was seeking. The discovery remained hidden until George Boole uncovered it a century later after Liebniz's death. We also discussed the Decimal Number system which has a base of ten. We also learned that the term radix means base. We talked about the reset and carry operation. Finally, we talked and learned the binary number system. We also learned how to convert the decimal number system into binary number systems and binary number systems into decimal number systems.

Thanks to my Introductory Computer Mathematics Book, Second Edition, Nigel P. Cook, published by Prentice Hall, pages 198-210

Class Discussion on April the 7th for IT Foundations

Our class discussion today was to get our WWKI up and running. We are gaining progress, and all learning together. We have found out our WWKI is using PHP programming language, and it is not very friendly to us users. But...we are getting there. We have our individual student blogs with the links, and we have ten terms on the main page. We also talked about the remainder of the semester, and were given our Math books. It looks as if we are going into binary numbers, and hexadecimals, which is all behind the scenes. I am looking forward to seeing the remainder of this semester, I have already learned so much, I hope my brain can retain all of this technology. I love it.