CSC322.01 2016F, Class 01: An Introduction to the Course
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_Overview_

* Preliminaries.
    * Admin.
    * Upcoming Work.
    * Extra Credit.
    * Questions.
* Quick Course Overview.
* Introductions.
* Projects.
* More Syllabus Stuff.

Preliminaries
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### Admin

* Welcome back to campus.
* Any activities that would benefit from peer support?
* Attendance.  (Who is in this class but not in 321?)
* Warning!  The Web site for this course is not ready for prime time.

### Upcoming Work

* None (yet).

### Good Things to Do

#### Academic

* CS Table *Tuesdays*!  
* CS Extras *Thurday*

####  Peer

### Questions

Quick Course Overview
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* Work on a 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.

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

* What do you like to be called
* 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?

Projects
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* Mayflower community builder
* Volunteer in Grinnell
* CS jobs
* Four year planner (?)
* One more TBD

More Important Issues
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*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
* Learning
* ...

More syllabus stuff
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* Schedule (and its structure).
* Expected workload.
* Grading.

Questions?
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