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

CSC 490 – Dr. Gary LocklairCSC 490 – Dr. Gary Locklair

CSC 490 - Senior Seminar I

This is your most important class!



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


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.


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.



CSC 175 review

Catalog description

overview



CS Curriculum

-spiral approach

-concepts plus skills

-education, not just training



trivium

-grammar

-logic

-rhetoric



learning

-theory

-practice

-application



CS major structurePeople:

-users

-programmers

-computer scientists



CS major structureHardware:

-black box

-architecture

-organization



CS major structureSoftware:

-applications

-programming languages

-systems



CSC 175 purpose

Create “power users”

Move from user to programmer, etc ..



CSC 175 purpose

Develop user empathy in future CS folks



Selected CSC 175 skills-install applications

-build computer

-advanced office use





Selected CSC 175 concepts

-analysis and design

-creative process istrinitarian



Selected CSC 175 concepts

-heuristics of good presentations



Miller’s number 7 ± 2

presentation tips

slides





Miller’s number 7 ± 2

presentation tips

slides

evils of powerpoint



Power Corrupts. PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely

Wired magazine 9/2003



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



PPT contributes to Columbia Space Shuttle disaster?



STS-107 Columbia Jan 2003



Columbia 1 Feb 2003







Systems Assignment #1

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