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CSC 151 2019S, Class 34: Project work day

Overview

  • Preliminaries
    • Notes and news
    • Upcoming work
    • Extra credit
    • Friday PSA
    • Questions
  • Quiz
  • Work time

Preliminaries

News / Etc.

  • Mentor sessions Thursday 7-8 p.m., Thursday 8-9 p.m.
  • Reminder: Next week’s Science Teaching and Learning Group will discuss student wellness. I’m hoping to share some of the extra credit reports you’ve submitted (anonymously). Let me know if you object to me sharing yours.
  • Today’s dumb question: Which Tutorial will be the most popular: “The Biology of Pokemon” or “Lord of the Rings”?

Upcoming work

  • Project due Tuesday!
    • Rubric available for your perusal.
    • Send me code, instructions for running, and report.
    • The parts of the report are specified in the rubric. I’d expect an introdution that describes the problem, a description of the key algorithms you wrote, a description of what you did with the results of those algorithms, and some conclusions about what you might have learned. Four sections, 1-2 pargraphs each.
  • No reading for Monday
  • No lab writeup
  • Next Friday’s quiz: Searching and sorting
  • Flash cards Wednesday: Searching and sorting

Extra Credit

I would certainly appreciate suggestions of other extra credit activities (preferably via email).

Extra credit (Academic/Artistic)

  • Today/Tomorrow: Salt Marsh Suite Performances (you can list it as peer) Friday April 26-Saturday April 27 at 7:00PM and 8:30PM; Sunday April 28 2:00PM and 3:30PM. (Need tickets)
    • The set (with video) looks astounding. I’d definitely recommend it.
    • Detour: Why you should know Hallie Flanagan.
  • CS Table, next Tuesday, Facebook Data, Noon, Middle PDR
  • Three talks by Prof. Dr. Yvonne Foerster (https://yvonnefoerster.com/)
    • Wednesday: May 1, 4:30-6pm, HSSC S3325: Beyond the Anthropocene: Technology, Innovation, and the (Post-)Human Condition
    • Thursday, May 2, Noon-12:50pm, HSSC N3110 Degrees of Freedom: Embodiment, Neuroplasticity, and the Need for a Critical Neuroscience (Lunch and beverages provided)
    • Friday, May 3, Noon-12:50pm, Bucksbaum 152: Designing Future Bodies: Fashion and Technology (Lunch and beverages provided)

Extra credit (Peer)

  • Today: Track and Field at Grandview.
  • Tomorrow: Chamber Concert, 2pm, Saturday, Herrick
  • The Dance performances can also count as peer extra credit (but only one of the two).
  • New/Tomorrow: Titular Head

Extra credit (Wellness)

  • Guided Movement Meditations, 12:15 Friday and Saturday, Flanagan Theatre. Also between performances of the show.
  • New/Today: Hand-pulled noodle workshop, Apr. 26, 4:30-5:30 pm, Chinese House. RSVP by signing up on the form posted in faculty house. (Limited to 15 people).
  • New/Today: Swing/Contra, Tonight, 8pm, Loose Lounge.

Extra credit (Wellness, Regular)

  • 30 Minutes of Mindfulness at SHAW every Monday 4:15-4:45
  • Any organized exercise.
  • 60 minutes of some solitary self-care activities that are unrelated to academics or work. Your email reflection must explain how the activity contributed to your wellness.
  • 60 minutes of some shared self-care activity with friends. Your email reflection must explain how the activity contributed to your wellness.

Extra credit (Misc)

Other good things

  • New: Kinetic Sculpture Competition, Saturday, 1pm, Central Park
  • New: Collegium, Sunday, 2pm, Sebring-Lewis
  • New: Japanese Movie Night: Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog, Apr. 26, 7 pm, JRC 227
  • New: Japanese Movie Night: Pokemon: The Power of Us, Apr. 27, 7-9pm, HSSC N1130

Friday PSA

  • Take care of yourselves.

Questions

What is the quiz on?

Scheme.

I want to make a fancy GUI for my project. How do I do so?

I blame T. Ask them.

Quiz

Work time

The work time exists primarily so that there’s a time that all of your group can be together in the same room.

However, the mentors and I will come around and do our best to help you with questions.