CS101 Swiki
Welcome to Fall 2005 Computer Science 101 - Introduction to Computing
Lectures: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12:30 to 1:45, 309 BH.
Section meetings: Wednesday mornings 9:00 to 10:50, 2249 SEL
Latest Announcement
- Final Exam:
Date: Fri, Dec 9 10:30 - 12:30am
Location:138 SES
Sample Questions: http://wiki.cs.uic.edu:8080/CS101/109 (This is sample questions for Spring 2005). Questions in the final exam would be similar to those appeared in midterm 1 and midterm 2.
Close books, close notes, except that you may bring TWO double-sided pages of notes. - If you have any time conflicts with CS101 final exam, please email Professor Sloan(sloan@uic.edu), TA Shun Liang(sliang@cs.uic.edu) IMMEDIATELY. In the email, please provide the course name of the other conflicting course, professor's name and email address.
- Grades for ALL homeworks(HW1 to HW10), exercises(EX0 to EX12), labs(Lab1 to Lab3) are available. If you have any questions about your grades, please email Shun Liang sliang@cs.uic.edu BEFORE 9pm, Dec 1st, Thursday. No grades would be changed after that.
- Questions about lab/finger exercises/homework grading, turning in, mechanics, etc., please send email ONLY to TA Shun Liang(sliang@cs.uic.edu), NOT to Professor Sloan.
- Questions about lab/finger exercise/homework ideas and how to complete them, etc., email either TA or Professor (or send jointly to both).
- Questions about lectures, please email Professor Sloan.
Schedule, Assignments, Resources
- Course Outline: Syllabus, lecture slides, and assignment deadlines are here.
- Finger Exercises,Assignments & Labs: Problems, grading criteria are here.
- Office Hours: When Professor Sloan or the TA answer your questions about the lecture and homework.
- Sample Exam 1 Questions
- Sample Midterm 2 Questions
- Midterm Exam 2 Thursday November 3, in class.
- Who's Who - Fall 2005: Self introduction from Professor and students are here.
- Fall 2005 Class Pictures: How do your classmates look like?
- Comment Area - Fall 2005- These are the places where you tell us about what's going on, ask us questions, and talk about issues in the class and ask questions about the homeworks and labs.
- Grading Policy-Galleries-Useful Tools (Download JES, Audacity, etc.)
Audience
This course is intended for students with little to no prior programming experience who:
- are interested in seeking a major or minor in Computer Science, or
- are other College of Engineering majors who wish to pursure the CS 101-102 path to meeting their computer science requirement.
For visiting educators
- BundledCourse Materials-Very brief explanation of our approach:http://www.cs.uic.edu/~sloan/media/_
OTHER LINKS
- Web site to grab UIC, Chicago, and Flames images. Various pixel sizes available.
- Georgia Tech's Media computation course. (Their course is for non/imajors–we expect more of you.)
- Spring05– Spring 2005 swiki site
- Wiki Play Area (Go here if you just want to fool around posting to this Wiki)
- ACCC Home Page/a
- Blackboard at UIC/a
This is a swiki, a particular type of wiki, also known as a CoWeb (short for Collaborative Web.)
(The most famous wiki is probably theWikipedia. Wired/i ranthis interesting article on the Wikipedia)
| For general information on why Profs. Sloan and Troy are teaching this course and also CS 100 using a media computaation approach, seehttp://www.cs.uic.edu/~sloan/media/ |
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