CSC 100 Orientation to Computer Science
Spring 2009

F 10:00 – 11:50 am
CIS Room 1008
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Important Dates

Start Date: Wednesday, January 7

Last Day Registration: Wednesday, January 14

Holiday (MLK): Monday, January 19

Last Day to Withdraw (W): Tuesday, February 24

Spring Break: March 7 - 15

Holiday: April 9 - 10

Last Day Classes: Monday, April 27

 

Paper Dates

Midterm Paper: Friday, February 20 (subject to change)

Final Paper: Friday, April 17 (subject to change)

Final Exam: Final paper will be used in lieu of a final examination.

 

Log on guide for Blackboard. http://www.uncw.edu/itsd/documents/LogintoBlackboardVISTA4.doc

 

Office hours: TR 2-3:30 pm and W 8:30-9:30 am.

Page last updated updated on: Friday, April 24, 2009 8:23 AM

 

Course Calendar
Week Friday
1

1/9: Introduction to the field of Computer Science (intro slides)

 

Reading (Note: reading must be complete by next class):

SMS: The Short Message Service

Mobile Education, LLC FAQ

2

1/16: Faculty: Ron Vetter (My Intro Slides)

Vetter's Slides

 

Reading (Note: reading must be complete by next class):

Is Computer Science Science?

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years

Women Students in Computer Science: Student Perspectives of Faculty Bias as a Possible Influence on Student Retention

 

Midterm Paper (Due: Feb 20)

3

1/23: Faculty: Laurie Patterson. General Computer Application Knowledge: Is There a Difference Between Genders? (My Intro Slides)

 

Reading (Note: reading must be complete by next class):

Dataprocessing

What is Biostatistics?

4

1/30: Industry: Ryan Wilkins (PPD, Inc). Biostatistics for Pharmaceutical Development and Drug Trials (My Intro Slides)

 

Reading (Note: reading must be complete by next class):

Biometrics Overview

Craniofacial Aging, Wiley Handbook on Homeland Security (Pre-print)

 

5

2/6: Faculty: Karl Ricanek. Biometrics Overview (My Intro Slides)

 

Reading (Note: reading must be complete by next class):

http://people.uncw.edu/tompkinsj/112/texnh/assignments/101asg4writeup.html#examples
http://people.uncw.edu/tompkinsj/112/texnh/assignments/imageFormat.html#ppm
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~weg22/edge.html
http://people.uncw.edu/tompkinsj/112/texnh/labs/lab7.html

6

2/13: Faculty: Jack Tompkins. Image Algorithms in C Programming (My Intro Slides)

 

Reading (Note: reading must be complete by next class):

The Curious Case of Aging Visual Effects:  http://www.fxguide.com/article520.html
X-Men:  Extreme Makeover:  http://www.fxguide.com/article357.html
Features of Irrlicht:  http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/features.html

 

Additional Material:

The making of Toy Story

Comparison of Synthetic Face Aging

Creating Life Like Characters in Toy Story

 

7

2/20: Faculty: Eric Patterson. Computer Graphics (My Intro Slides)

 

Reading (Note: reading must be complete by next class):

Playing with the brain

DARPA's BCI

Real time control of robot arm with neurons

8

2/27: Student: Maurice Benson. Brain Computer Interfaces--BCI's (My Intro Slides)

 

Reading (Note: reading must be complete by next class):

Bran Selic, The Pragmatics of Model-Driven Development, IEEE Software, SEP/OCT 2003 (Vol.  20, No. 5) pp. 19-25 LINK <http://0-csdl.computer.org.uncclc.coast.uncwil.edu/dl/mags/so/2003/05/s5019.pdf>
France, R.; Rumpe, B., "Model-driven Development of Complex Software: A Research Roadmap," Future of Software Engineering, 2007. FOSE '07 , vol., no., pp.37-54, 23-25 May 2007

9

3/6: Faculty: Devon Simmonds. Software Engineering (My Intro Slides)

 

Reading (Note: reading must be complete by next class):

http://people.uncw.edu/mferner/database%20Discussion.htm

10 3/13: Spring BREAK.... Yeah!!!!
11

3/20: Faculty: Marni Ferner. Databases (My Intro Slides)

The quiz will be based on the presentation. See week 9 reading.

 

Reading (Note: reading must be complete by next class):

Chapter 1 from Jurafsky and Martin’s Speech and Language Processing (17 pages):   http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~martin/SLP/Updates/1.pdf

12

3/27: Faculty: Curry Guinn. Natural Langauge Processing (My Intro Slides)

 

Final Paper requirements posted. Final paper is due April 17th.

Reading (Note: reading must be complete by next class):

"Google and the Wisdom of Clouds:  A lofty new strategy aims to put incredible computing power in the hands of many"
by Stephen Baker
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_52/b4064048925836.htm ßß

 

13

4/3: Faculty: Clayton Ferner. Cloud and Grid Computing (My Intro Slides)

 

Reading: No reading next class is holiday... Next presenter will discuss co-op and intern experience.

14 4/10: Holiday
15

Class moved to Cameron Hall Room 123

4/17: Faculty: Ralph Bradley TBA (My Intro Slides)

 

FINAL PAPER DUE TODAY

 

Reading (Note: reading must be complete by next class):

Squeak Etoys from http://squeakland.org and take a look at http://useitproject.org.

16

4/24: Faculty: Sridhar Narayan TBA (My Intro Slides)

 

Final class of the term.... You made it....