Today i missed the first lecture because of Network Rail being incapable of getting a train to London Waterloo by 8.15.
My interpretation of the lecture is based solely on the LAB session and the lecture notes and PowerPoint slides that i have read.
The basic over view seems that it was about setting up the structure of the module and to
"Introduce the nature and potential of computing and digital information represented at a number of levels and to provide practical experience of using and managing digital data represented in a number of forms and formats"
This was done by describing how computers use information, the different kinds of information how they are represented and how we can use them.
Topics covered included bits and bites, binary, how file formats work and what their suffix means, EG .txt. .jpeg .html, the importance of understanding ASCII and how different file formats interact with ASCII.
Also the coursework was spoken about and how we need to keep a blog of our progress through the course and that 2 blog entries will make up the coursework for this module and they will be about web 1.0 and web 2.0/3.0.
They also looked at how the lab sessions will work and what we are expected to do during these sessions.
Today the lab consisted of experimenting using file extensions and how they affect ASCII, this included creating a word text file, converting it to a .docx, adding formatting, viewing it in text viewer to see how non ASCII characters are shown, adding a picture and saving it as a HTML file so it can be viewed on a web page.
