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On to Outline 02 - Introduction, continued.

Summary

We begin the course by considering its goals and structure. We also self-reflect to understand what we can bring to the course.

Related Pages

Overview

• Quick Course Overview
• Why This Course?
• Introductions
• The Projects
• More Important Issues
• More Syllabus Stuff
• Strengths Finder
• Wrapup

Administrivia

• Welcome back. I hope you had spectacular summers!
• Any activities that would benefit from peer support?
• CS Table Tuesday! Topic TBD.
• New department academic honesty policy available at http://www.cs.grinnell.edu/academic-honesty-policy.
• Attendance.

Quick Course Overview

• Build medium-sized project (that seems large because we don't spend a lot of time on it).
• For a local client.
• Meeting a non-mission-critical need.
• With guidance from an alumni mentor.

Why This Course?

Please answer one of the following two questions.

Introductions

We will be working together for the semester. We should know a little bit about each other.

• What do you like to be called
• Preferred Gender Pronoun
• Where are you from?
• When you have spare time, how do you like to spend that spare time?
• What will you bring to the class?

The Projects

Current, past, and simulated students will come and talk about their projects.

• What is the project?
• Who is the client?
• In what stage is the project? (Just beginning, nearing completion, somewhere in between.)
• Why should someone want to work on this project?

More Important Issues

You may think this course is about coding. But it's about much more.

• Working and communicating with other people
  • Peers
  • Clients
  • "Supervisors"
• Estimating and prediction
• Time management
• ...

More Syllabus Stuff

• Schedule (and its structure).
• Expected workload.
• Grading.

Strengths Finder

• Fortunately, somone else runs this section.

Wrapup

• Whatever is left