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The order of the 16 chapters is largely based on the order that the topics have been covered in the first two semesters of offering our CIT 130 course at Northern Kentucky University. This ordering is partially based on the structure of the course, which meets one day per week for a lecture and one day per week for a laboratory session. So, for instance, the placement of computer history in the middle of the text was caused by the fact that the laboratory sessions that pertain to Chapters 5 and 6 carry on for 3 weeks. Similarly, the computer assembly laboratory lasts 2 weeks, and the lectures that we cover over those weeks are from Chapters 2 and 3. As a teacher, you might desire to rearrange the chapters based on your ...
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