Binary Arithmatic
Location: Nangi, Nepal
Local Time: Thursday, Dec 22, 2005 - 1:40pm
Well, I'm in the restricted, teachers area of the computer lab. It is the part of the lab with a UPS, and an Internet connection, even when the other computers have no power nor working network connection. Half the other computers don't even have network cards.
Back in the other room Krishna is teaching grade 9 computer science. They are studying binary arithmatic today. Yes, binary arithmatic. Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of binary numbers. Also hex numbers and octal numbers.
I didn't do this stuff until first year university.
Also on the government ciriculum is QBasic. Which runs in DOS mode in Windows. That computer language was big, with DOS 6.0 about 15 years ago. Grades 9 and 10 study QBasic, 11 and 12 study C/C++.
Local Time: Thursday, Dec 22, 2005 - 1:40pm
Well, I'm in the restricted, teachers area of the computer lab. It is the part of the lab with a UPS, and an Internet connection, even when the other computers have no power nor working network connection. Half the other computers don't even have network cards.
Back in the other room Krishna is teaching grade 9 computer science. They are studying binary arithmatic today. Yes, binary arithmatic. Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of binary numbers. Also hex numbers and octal numbers.
I didn't do this stuff until first year university.
Also on the government ciriculum is QBasic. Which runs in DOS mode in Windows. That computer language was big, with DOS 6.0 about 15 years ago. Grades 9 and 10 study QBasic, 11 and 12 study C/C++.
posted by Jaye | 1:04 PM
1 Comments:
1 + 1 = 10??? Bet your 1st grade math teacher would be spinning in her grave (assuming, of course, that she's passed on; otherwise, perhaps, in her errrr teacher's lounge chair) if she heard that, eh?
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