CIS 109 01 - Computer Sci for the Liberal Arts

About This Course

Welcome to CIS 109!
You will find the syllabus to the course in the Handouts section (General Information section).
The assignment schedule is not attached to the syllabus. It is in a separate  document in the same section of the Handouts.
Many handouts are pdf files. You must have a pdf file reader to open them. To download Adobe Acrobat Reader, click here.

Tutorials and Demos

Ungrouped

This pdf file requires Adobe reader 9 or higher ( available in our lab and in the math lab). You can download it for free be clicking here.
(.pdf, 2068K)
Download Introduction to Audacity
This demo shows how to create a graph using GeoGebra, a free software tool we will be using for the network project. You need Adobe PDF Reader to view this file. 
(.pdf, 1206K)
Download Creating a Graph wiht GeoGebra

Bookmarks

Ungrouped

Video introduction to pair-programming
Visit Pair-programming

Women in computing

Interviews of successful women entrpreneurs in IT companies, large and small, even non-profit.
Visit Women Entrepreneurs in IT
IBM Women in Technology external links page. Provide links to a number of of website concerning women and technology.
Visit IBM WIT external links page
Links to two pages full of interviews and portraits of women who made significant contributions at IBM.
Visit IBM WIT Persona page
Short portraits of the awards winner of the 2009 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
Visit Grace Hopper Celebration Awards Winner

Computing Careers

Resources page of the Nationnal Center for Women and Information Technology
This page has many links to find information about careers, women in IT, the "real life" of IT people, etc. 
Visit NCWIT resource page
Computing careers website form the largest international computer science organization, the Association for Computing Machinery.
Visit ACM Computing careers
Sloan Career Corner Stone Center, another site to get information about computing careers
Visit Computing carreer site

Student Survey

Get help using 'Student Survey'
You are not authorized to use this portlet; It is only available to users in certain roles within the portal.

Handouts

General Information

Alice Unit

You will find here all material for the Alice unit of study.
It contains the reading and exercises referred to in the assignment schedule for the Alice unit.
Updated August 29
(.pdf, 1535K)
Download Alice Notes

Representing Data

This zipped folder contains a program called GraphicExplorer and a folder of pictures. Download the folder to the computer. Then extract the files: navigate to where the folder is located, right-click on it, and select Extract all. Follow the instructions of the dialog box.
A small demo of the program is on the tutorial/demo portlet. 
(.zip, 2429K)
Download GraphicExplorer