fandomhigh | Hacking 101 ; Monday ; Period 2

Today's class was back in the computer lab. When the students walked in, they'd see both the computers booted up with some possibly unrecognizable program going and they'd also see a long table of disassembled computers. Riley figured they had to start with the basics before they really got into hacking.

"Morning," he said, giving them all a little salute. "Hope you guys had a good weekend and a good holiday if you did celebrate. Today, we're going to really get into the meat of the class. To be a good hacker, you have to know a little bit about computers. So, that's what we're gonna spend today on. On the computers in front of you, you'll see a program that'll help you learn one of the basic languages of computing, Python. If you're gonna hack, you gotta know how a computer works. Python's a lot easier to learn than C and it doesn't take as long either. Python is intended to be a highly readable language. It is designed to have an uncluttered visual layout, frequently using English keywords where other languages use punctuation. That's what makes it easier to learn."

He paused for a second and moved over to the table of computer parts. "Second, we're all gonna be putting together computers. Yes, this might seem more suited to a class on mechanics but if you know the bits and pieces of a computer, it'll make you a better hacker. You'll be able to visualize what you're hacking and you'll know that not all computer is built the same. I've left instructions for each computer but I'll also be around to help you out with both learning the language and the assemblage of the computers. Let's get started."

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Working hard!

It's there, use it how you'd like!

Learn the computer language, Python! (http://www.learnpython.org/)

Put together a computer!

She might be around to help or just be encouraging!

He's around!

Feel free to mod anything in either activity!

Daphne Blake

Mostly encouraging! Although if someone totally sucked at the computer language thing, she might have been able to help. Maybe. There was a tiny chance she understood some of that.

Assembling a computer had her biting her lip and glancing at her phone every so often. Could she make Vic tutor her in the middle of class?

Kathy Li

Liara T'Soni

Oh yes, Kathy liked Python. It was so much easier to write print = "hello world!" than the amount of code that it would take to write the same sentence in C++. She was able to skip ahead a few tutorials since she'd already spent some time learning Python, which meant she got to spend her time playing with different operations and putting them into functions.

Nerd.

Kathy wasn't much of a fan of putting together the computer she was finding out. It wasn't very hard--the case was pretty good about showing where the components were supposed to go--but it was rather like putting together a jigsaw puzzle that used screws and cables and things and each individual piece was worth a decent amount of cash.

Less building, more coding. That was her basic takeaway from today's class.

Joker Moreau

Hacking 101 ; Monday ; Period 2

Sign In [HACK 101 07/07]

Lecture [HACK 101 07/07]

Class Activity: Python [HACK 101 07/07]

Class Activity: Computer Assemblage [HACK 101 07/07]

Karolina [HACK 101 07/07]

Riley [HACK 101 07/07]

OOC [HACK 101 07/07]

Re: Sign In [HACK 101 07/07]

Re: Karolina [HACK 101 07/07]

Re: Sign In [HACK 101 07/07]

Re: Sign In [HACK 101 07/07]

Re: Class Activity: Python [HACK 101 07/07]

Re: Class Activity: Computer Assemblage [HACK 101 07/07]

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