CSC 322.01, Class 01: Getting started
Overview
- Preliminaries
- Notes and news
- Upcoming work
- Questions
- Quick course overview
- Introductions
- Short project descriptions
- Course outcomes
- More course issues
- Questions
Notes and news
- Welcome back! I think I know most of you (at least from CSC 321), and I’m happy to be able to work with you again.
- I will take attendance. (Who is in this class but not in 321?)
- Warning! As is too often the case, the Web site for this course is not yet ready for prime time.
Upcoming work
- Refresh your knowledge of Ruby by doing https://github.com/saasbook/hw-ruby-intro.
(Due Tuesday.)
- Those in CSC 321 will be doing those problems as part of the first homework in CSC 321.
Good things to do
Academic
- First-year convocation today!
Peer
- ???
Questions
Quick course overview
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?
- Pronouns (optional)
- Where are you from?
- When you have spare time, how do you like to spend that spare time?
- What will you bring to the course?
- What will you bring to your project team?
Short project descriptions
- Mayflower community
- GPCF wrapups
- Local Foods Bank
- PALS
- Project Callisto
- Academic CS job board (if needed)
Course outcomes
More course issues
- Schedule (and its structure).
- Expected workload.
- Grading.