WEEK 9
TUTORIAL TASK & TUTESPARK
- PLANNING THE ESSAY -
In a couple of weeks I will be posting my essay for 1501HUM New Communication Technologies. The essay will be my last official blog post for the second semester of university, which makes one wonder, where has all the time gone.
The topic of my much anticipated essay (not) will be focusing on the first essay question listed on tutespark. Which was to discuss the impact of two prominent figures in the development of digital technologies and digital culture. We were given a list of names to choose two from that included many great technological pioneers, but the two I have chosen to focus on are, Charles Babbage and Alan Turing. This will take me from Babbages 19th century Difference Engine all the way to Turing and the computers developed at Bletchley Park to crack the German 'enigma' codes during World War Two.
There are many places I could start planning and researching this assignment as I have plenty of resources to draw information from. As I am doing a bachelor of IT degree and have already written a couple of assignments about Charles Babbage and Alan Turing and their places in the early history of computing. Another positive factor is the fact that I did a first year IT subject a couple of years ago called Foundations of Computing and Communication that discussed these topics in their syllabus. So I guess finding relevant information for this particular essay will not be a problem. But the thing I find most facinating about these two men is the fact that they were able to see and implement an idea in times when these ideas were considered foolish or improbable, yet they had the guts to not say, this can't be done but rather how can it be done.
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