CSC 490 – Dr. Gary Locklair CSC 490 - Senior Seminar I This is your most important class!

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This is your most important class!

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Systems Assignment #0 due todayWritten Assignment #1 due next time (Day 5)

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advice column …

ASK K'PLETT: Klingon Wisdom, Just For You

Although I am not a diplomat, I have spent much of my life in the Klingon Delegation, as a bodyguard and because they required someone to carry large items and hold the heavy Klingon banner during ceremonies. I have served the Empire with honor, in my youth aboard the Vor'cha-class attack cruiser P'Lor, and in these later years with the Delegation. I enjoy skull stew and bloodwine, my hobbies include the Bat'Leth, orbital skydiving and collecting Klingon sculptures. I am single, but do not wish to stay that way.

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advice column …

Dear K'Plett,What should I do if I'm in a fight? Should I fight back or walk away? Captain Mario

It all depends upon the circumstances. If you are fighting against an infant Ferengi, there would be little honor in smashing his face and howling in victory as he crumples into a weeping pile. If your opponent is evenly matched and a sentient Jem'Hadar, however, that is a different matter. As a member of the Klingon Delegation, it would be inappropriate for me to endorse any course of action restricted by your Federation law, so I am reluctant to advise you to attack the little P'tak with the full fury of a warrior in the throes of bloodlust. In any case, let your opponent attack first, you can study his weaknesses as you deflect the attack. Then retaliate. I have found it particularly effective to scream loudly into their ears during the fight.

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CSC 175 review

Catalog description

overview

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CS Curriculum

-spiral approach

-concepts plus skills

-education, not just training

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trivium

-grammar

-logic

-rhetoric

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learning

-theory

-practice

-application

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CS major structurePeople:

-users

-programmers

-computer scientists

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CS major structureHardware:

-black box

-architecture

-organization

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CS major structureSoftware:

-applications

-programming languages

-systems

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CSC 175 purpose

Create “power users”

Move from user to programmer, etc ..

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CSC 175 purpose

Develop user empathy in future CS folks

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Selected CSC 175 skills-install applications

-build computer

-advanced office use

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Selected CSC 175 concepts

-analysis and design

-creative process istrinitarian

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Selected CSC 175 concepts

-heuristics of good presentations

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Miller’s number 7 ± 2

presentation tips

slides

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Miller’s number 7 ± 2

presentation tips

slides

evils of powerpoint

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Power Corrupts. PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely

Wired magazine 9/2003

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bulleted PPT lists are a “faux analytical technique that sidesteps the presenter’s responsibility to link the information together in a cohesive argument.” - Tufte

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PPT contributes to Columbia Space Shuttle disaster?

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STS-107 Columbia Jan 2003

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Columbia 1 Feb 2003

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Systems Assignment #1