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On to Outline 02 - Partner Meetings.

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.
• The Projects.
• Strengths Finder
• Team building.
• R&ecaute;umeé reviews.
• More Syllabus Stuff.
• Wrapup.

Administrivia

• Welcome back to campus.
• Any activities that would benefit from peer support?
• New department academic honesty policy available at http://www.cs.grinnell.edu/academic-honesty-policy.
• Attendance.

Upcoming Work

• Discuss your project with your team.
• Prepare questions for your community partners.

Good Things to Do

Academic

• CS Table Tuesdays! Upcoming topic: Facebook's Walled Indian Internet
• CS Extras Thursdays! Today's topic: Summer research. Next week's topic: \LaTeX.

Peer

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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
• 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
• ...

Strengths Finder

• Fortunately, somone else runs this section.

More Syllabus Stuff

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

Team Building

• Introduce yourself quickly to your team members.
• Read each other's R&ecaute;umeé's. Discuss what they tell you about the other members of your team.
• Fill in the team StrengthsQuest form. (Those who did not participate in StrengthsQuest will have to guess their strengths.)

R&ecaute;umeé reviews

Reread the r&ecaute;umeés of the folks in your group, keeping the following questions in mind.

• What story does the r&ecaute;umeé tell? (If you had to summarize the person in two sentences based on this r&ecaute;umeé, what would you say?
• What is something in this r&ecaute;umeé that you might adapt for your own r&ecaute;umeé?
• What makes this r&ecaute;umeé stand out from the others you read?
• What are two things you would improve in this r&ecaute;umeé?

I will wander through groups. I will also provide my own critiques in next week's class.

Wrapup

• Whatever is left