This is the first time we write a reflection, and we started to probe deeper into the world of computer science. We learnt about the computing system, the computing layer, and how to publish a nice blog in the WordPress.com.

About computing system

We have learned about computing diagram which includes input, output, process, storage and communication, and we have done a presentation of this topic.

These five objects are required by a computer system. Storage devices communicate with communication devices through the CPU which refers to central processing unit. Input devices send signals and messages to the CPU, and the out put devices reflect them into “real” form, such as sound and vision.

We have done a presentation about the output, and I made the part of output with audio and sound. I introduced headphones and speakers to the class, which also helped myself to learn more about the modern technologies about audio output.

We used zoho.com to cooperate as a group and finished our slides. The website was super convenient because we didn’t need to transfer our slides through WeChat or email which are time-consuming. The only thing we needed to do was to open the same online project, and no matter where we were, we could work on the same project at the same time. However, I think the website should be evaluated on its stability, because it crashed lots of time when we worked on it, and we had to do it again. After all, its interface was nice and clean, and its functions were full and various, which fulfilled our needs of producing the most of the effects we wanted.

There is also a theory of the layer of the computer system… The computer will not be able to run without the inner four layers; also, with the applications and communications, it will become the computer we know today and serve the main functions.

In addition, we learnt how to write and publish a blog in the WordPress.com. We learnt the interface of the website: we learnt how to insert an image or paragraph, how to classify different blogs to different categories, and how to update and publish our blogs to our own main page so that everyone could see our work. By these means, we are able to express our thoughts, show our work in this full week and share our knowledge.

This is the end of this post. We learnt a lot in this week, and hopefully we will learn more in the future.