WxIoT updates

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Add octet vs byte discussion to HW1

No, Octal is a notation thing (in the same way that you can write a number in binary, decimal, or hex, you can also write it in octal, i.e. base eight).

Octet just means ‘set of eight’. Way back in the day, the size of a byte varied (indeed, there were still machines shipping in the early 2000’s where one byte != eight bits).

Networking necessarily needed to talk between different machines, so if they describe protocols in terms of number of bytes, it would be ambiguous how many bits were actually being sent. An ‘octet’ means a ‘byte which is made of eight bits’.

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• Change to formal lab based schedule; maybe Tu/Th 90m lectures (60 ppl) + 2x lab sessions of 30 ppl?

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• lab1 setup: WiFi AP with no password, lock to channel 5 or similar

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• Introduce concept of 'event based programming' in HW1 or Lab1
  • Reference this back in each of the labs, as we live at the event reception level
• Consider day 1 exercise: "Everyone tell me your favorite number {birthday, etc}", goal get info from everyone, overlapping voices, watch how they coordinate, add restrictions (do with eyes closed) etc