Handouts

You’d think the syllabus and schedule would provide all the info you need for a course, wouldn’t you? But I’ve found over the years that it can be helpful to provide additional information. To ensure that you read the information, I even give you an assignment. What else is there? Let’s see.

Teaching, grading, and such

On teaching and learning: A bit of philosophy (more or less).
Grading: More details on grading processes (and a bit on the underlying philosophy).
Gradescope: A few notes on the grading platform we’re using.

Other important issues

Accommodations and adjustments: Policies and practices (and why I use two terms)
Accessibility of Web pages: Why I try to keep pages accessible and who to report to when they’re not.
Academic integrity: A long document that attempts to explain key issues of academic integrity in this course and in the discipline.
AI programming assistants: Some notes on why I discourage the use of AI programming assistants in my introductory classes.
Notes on taking notes: Some tips on taking notes.
Pre-Assessments and Post-Assessments: Advance warning of the questions I’ll ask before and after each mini-project and SoLA.
Redos: Instructions related to redoing mini-projects.
Tips on working more productively: Some tips from students, mentors, and instructors.
Tokens: Information on gaining and spending tokens.

Secondary topics

Some thoughts on electronic mail: This page provides some details about how to best use electronic mail when dealing with me.
An old FAQ: I’m not sure when this is from. I’ve kept it around for some reason. I made a few changes for this term, but not enough. I may make more.

Some Scheme Stuff

Terminology: Some important terminology.
The Zen of Booleans: Expressing some Boolean expressions more concisely.
SamR’s Style Guide for Racket: Opinions and expectations on what your code should look like.
Tracing alphabetically-first: An exploration of some definitions of a recursive procedure.

Other versions of the course

These also aren’t strictly handouts, but I didn’t have another place for them. The list is incomplete.

CSC-151 2023 Fall (Autry): The other Fall 2023 section of the course.
CSC-151 2022 Spring (Rebelsky): My previous offereing of 151, focusing on digital humanities.
CSC-151 2017 Spring (Rebelsky): The last version of the media computation course. Maintained primarily so that I can keep a link around.

Copyright © Eric Autry, Charlie Curtsinger, Sarah Dahlby Albright, Janet Davis, Nicole Eikmeier, Fahmida Hamid, Priscilla Jiménez, Barbara Johnson, Titus Klinge, Peter-Michael Osera, Samuel A. Rebelsky, John David Stone, Anya Vostinar, Henry Walker, and Jerod Weinman.

Unless specified otherwise elsewhere on this page, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 543 Howard Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.

This website was built using Jekyll, Twitter Bootstrap, and the Bootswatch Cosmo Theme.