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Syllabus contents: Collaboration: The Gilligan’s Island Rule
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CSE100, Spring 1999 |
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Course Description Students will learn the knowledge and acquire the experience necessary to become fluent with information technology. Fluency with information technology is a condition in which a person can effectively apply computers, communications and information resources to solve personally relevant problems.* The class will cover the three types of knowledge required for fluency – skills, concepts and capabilities. The class will be project based and will use information technology extensively. All lab sessions are on-line. Students will work both individually and in teams. * Being Fluent With Information Technology, National Academy Press, 1999. Software Students considering working on personal machines may wish to purchase the UW Internet Connectivity Kit (UWICK) suite to assist in connecting to the UW domain. Notice, however, that our license agreement requires that the Visual Basic 6.0 software provided for this course be used on campus only.
Required Readings Two books will be used in the class: Alan W. Biermann, Great Ideas in Computer Science, A Gentle Introduction, MIT Press, 1997 Peter Wright, Beginning Visual Basic 6.0, Wrox Press Ltd., 1998
Collaboration – The Gilligan’s Island Rule Students are encouraged to study and learn together. Another student is often the best resource for working out a complex computation or understanding a difficult concept. However , in CSE100 all documents turned in to fulfill assignments must be the exclusive work of the person submitting them, unless otherwise requested. In order to allow students to work together, yet submit assignments that represent their own thought, the Gilligan’s Island and the Freedom of Information rules are adopted.The Gilligan's Island Rule: You are free to meet with fellow students(s) and discuss an assignment with them. Writing on a board or shared piece of paper during the meeting is acceptable; however, you should not take any written (electronic or otherwise) record away from the meeting. Everything that you derive from the collaboration should be in your head. After the meeting, engage in at least a half hour of mind-numbing activity (like watching an episode of Gilligan's Island*), before starting to work on the assignment. This will assure that you are able to reconstruct what you learned from the meeting, by yourself. The Freedom of Information Rule: To assure that all collaboration is on the level, you must always write the name(s) of your collaborators on your assignment. * Gilligan’s Island was a 1960s sitcom that set the standard for dim-witted TV. Seinfeld or anything more intelligent, e.g. some PBS programming, also works for this purpose.
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Contact the instructor at: snyder@cs.washington.edu
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