MODD / Mr. Hansen
9/3/2005 [rev. 9/7/2005]

Name: _______________________

 

MODD Course Outline (Draft 1)

 

W 9/7

Introduction, ground rules, planning the semester’s topics

Th 9/8

Unit 0x00: Logical Building Blocks

F 9/9

 

 

 

M 9/12

 

T 9/13

 

W 9/14

 

Th 9/15

 

F 9/16

 

 

 

M 9/19

Unit 0x10: Bits, Bytes, Hex, and Hertz

T 9/20

 

W 9/21

 

Th 9/22

 

F 9/23

 

 

 

M 9/26

Unit 0x20: What’s So Great About Digital?

T 9/27

 

W 9/28

 

Th 9/29

 

F 9/30

 

 

 

M 10/3

Unit 0x30: Audio

T 10/4

 

W 10/5

 

Th 10/6

 

F 10/7

No school

 

 

M 10/10

No school

T 10/11

 

W 10/12

 

Th 10/13

 

F 10/14

 

 

 

M 10/17

Unit 0x40: Compression

T 10/18

 

W 10/19

 

Th 10/20

 

F 10/21

 

 

 

M 10/24

 

T 10/25

 

W 10/26

 

Th 10/27

Unit 0x50: Video

F 10/28

 

 

 

M 10/31

 

T 11/1

 

W 11/2

 

Th 11/3

 

F 11/4

No school

 

 

M 11/7

Unit 0x60:Computation

T 11/8

 

W 11/9

 

Th 11/10

 

F 11/11

 

 

 

M 11/14

 

T 11/15

Unit 0x70: Cryptography

W 11/16

 

Th 11/17

 

F 11/18

 

 

 

M 11/21

 

T 11/22

 

 

[Thanksgiving break]

 

 

M 11/28

 

T 11/29

 

W 11/30

Unit 0x80: Error Correction

Th 12/1

 

F 12/2

 

 

 

M 12/5

 

T 12/6

 

W 12/7

Unit 0x90: Information Theory

Th 12/8

 

F 12/9

 

 

 

M 12/12

 

T 12/13

 

W 12/14

Unit 0xA0: Networking

Th 12/15

 

F 12/16

 

 

[Christmas break]

 

 

M 1/2

No school

T 1/3

 

W 1/4

 

Th 1/5

Review

F 1/6

Review and Fun Friday

 

 

 

Exam during Midterm Week (TBD)

 

 

 

“Fun Friday” Topics (Schedule TBD)

 

Audio illusions

Bar code hardware purchased on eBay

Beats, Doppler effect

Bioinformatics

Calculator sine/cosine fakeout

CD/DVD under a microscope

Combinatorics: from license plates to Las Vegas

Game of Life, cellular automata

GPS

Guest speaker

Hacking/anti-hacking competition

Ham radio/Morse code/SSTV exercise

Jeopardy Bingo (possibly more than once)

LP with stroboscope

MIDI demonstration and jam session

PCM hands-on

Playfair ciphers

Programming: Assembly language

Programming: BASIC

Proof puzzle challenge

Robotics

Sudoku

Telephone game with error correction

VIN encoding