EBoard 36: Project work time (Section 1)
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Approximate optimistic overview
Administrative stuff
Introductory notes
- In the interests of giving you as much time as possible to work with
partner, I’m going to skip most of my normal “start of class” material.
Please skim when you have time.
- Please consider The AI talk on Thursday and the Jean Salac on Monday.
- I think I’m up to date on grading token credits. Our three leaders
have earned 24, 22, and 20 tokens.
- It’s the time of the semester for lasts.
- Today is our last quiz.
- Tomorrow is our last reading response.
- Friday is our last lab.
- Friday is the last Middle of Everywhere.
- Sunday our last mini-project is due.
- Sunday our last pre-reflection is due.
- Our graders may have gotten confused by the change in policies for
MP7. If your grade seems wrong, let me know. If I don’t respond in
a day, let me know again.
- I brought you food for your work day.
- There’s a Keurig in the CS commons.
- Obligatory joke about Sam bringing food.
Upcoming activities
Scholarly
- Wednesday, 30 April 2025, 4:00 p.m., HSSC Multipurpose room.
Liz Lenz on “Antitidote to the Algorithm of Fear”
- Thursday, 1 May 2025, 11:00 a.m.–noon, JRC 101.
Dr. Tammy Kernodle: My Song is My Weapon: Women, Social Movements,
and the act of Freedom Singing
- Thursday, 1 May 2025, 4:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m., Noyce 2022.
AI and our Academic Mission: Crap, What now?
- Monday, 5 May 2025, noon. HSSC S1235.
Jean Salac: Emergent Gateways and Gaps in Responsible Computing Education
- Tuesday, 6 May 2025, noon–1:00 p.m., White PDR.
CS Table
- Thursday, 8 May 2025, 7:00–8:30 p.m., HSSC S3325.
Humanities Speaker: Dr. Dan Wildcat
- Thursday, 8 May 2025, 7:30–10:00 p.m., Sebring-Lewis.
Symphonic Band Concert
Artistic
- Any day it’s open. GCMoA.
BAX
- Friday, 2 May 2025, 7:00–9:00 p.m., Sebring-Lewis.
Silent Films with Improvised Scores
- Friday, 2 May 2025, 7:30–8:30 p.m., Flanagan.
Dance Ensemble/ACTivate: A Rebours
- Saturday, 3 May 2025, 2:00–3:00 p.m., Flanagan.
Dance Ensemble/ACTivate: A Rebours
- Saturday, 3 May 2025, 7:00–8:00 p.m., Wall.
Infinite Coincidence Improv Show
Multicultural
- Friday, 2 May 2025, 4:00–5:00 p.m., HSSC N1170 (Global Living Room).
Middle of Everywhere: Brazil
- Friday, 2 May 2025, 5:00 p.m., HSSC N 1164.
ISO Scrap Book
- ???, ?? May 2025, 1:00–8:30 p.m., Cleveland Beach. (Estimates.)
Holi
Peer
Musical, theatric, sporting, and academic events involving this section’s
students are welcome.
- Read articles by your fellow CSC-151 students and comment on them online.
This is the last week of normal S&B articles!
- Wednesday, 30 April 2025, 1pm, Baseball field.
Baseball vs. Cornell
- Saturday, 3 May 2025, Noon, Baseball field.
Baseball vs. Knox (senior day)
- Saturday, 3 May 2025, 2:30 p.m., Baseball field.
Baseball vs. Knox
Wellness
- When and where they usually occur.
Badminton Club, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, _HIIT Training,
Nerf at Noyce, Yoga.
- Tuesday, 13 May 2025, 5:00–6:00 p.m., HSSC Atrium.
Therapy Dogs.
- Tuesday, 13 May 2025, 7:15–8:15 p.m., HSSC Atrium.
Therapy Dogs.
- Tuesday, 29 April 2025, 7:00–8:30 p.m., Harris Concert Hall.
Queer Stompede.
- Thursday, 1 May 2025. 4:30–6:30 p.m., Off Campus.
Forest Bathing.
Misc
- Wednesday, 30 April 2025, Noon–1:00 p.m., HSSC A2231 (Auditorium)
Community Forum
- “Weekly discussion on legal protections and recourse on issues
that higher education and Grinnell College face.”
- Also online.
- This week: Titles VI and IX
- Friday, 2 May 2025, 3:30–5:00 p.m., Burling Digital Studio.
Vivero End-of-Year Showcase
- Friday, 2 May 2025, 5:00 p.m., Merrill Park West.
CS Picnic
- Sunday, 4 May 2025, 7:30–8:30 p.m., Science 3819.
Mentor Session: SoLA 4
Other good things
These do not earn tokens, but are worth your consideration.
Upcoming work
- Wednesday, 30 April 2025
- Our last quiz day!
- Quiz: Higher-order programming
- Makeup quiz: Data abstraction
- Makeup quiz: Diagramming structures (paper only)
- Makeup quiz: Tracing (paper only)
- Don’t forget that you can bring a page of hand-written notes for
each quiz.
- Thursday, 1 May 2025
- Readings for Friday (our last readings)
- Sunday, 4 May 2025
- Monday, 5 May 2025
- SoLA 4 released!
- Topics from Phase One (4): Collaboration, Decomposition,
Lambda-free anonymous procedures (aka cut and compose), Primitive types
- Topics from Phase Two (6): Conditionals, Documentation, Ethical
Considerations, Lists (and “the big three”), Program Style, Testing
- Topics from Phase Three (5): List recursion, Local bindings,
Numeric recursion, Vectors, Randomness
- Topics from Phase Four w/prior quizzes (3): Data abstraction,
Dictionaries, Higher-order programming
- Topics from Phase Four already covered (1): Tree recursion
- Topics from Phase Four to be covered Friday (2): Running time,
Searching
- Wednesday, 7 May 2025
- Friday, 9 May 2025
- Friday, 16 May 2025
- Submit final redo for MP1 on Gradescope
- Submit final redo for MP2 on Gradescope
- Submit final redo for MP3 on Gradescope
- Submit final redo for MP4 on Gradescope
- Submit final redo for MP5 on Gradescope
Questions
Administrative
Can I reflect on S&B articles from past weeks?
Nope. Only the current week.
Have the graders graded the most recent redos?
Nope.
Project
Work time