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On to Outline 02 - About the Projects.

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

• EBoard 1 (Source 1)

Overview

• Quick Course Overview.
• Why This Course?.
• Introductions.
• More Syllabus Stuff.

Administrivia

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

Upcoming Work

• Strengths finder. You should have received an email message.

Good Things to Do

Academic

• CS Table Tuesdays!

Peer

• ???

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.

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
• 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?

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.