CIS 109 01 - Computer Sci for the Liberal Arts

About This Course

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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.
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Tutorials and Demos

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    GraphicExplorer Demo
    Required
    GraphicExplorer2_demo.pdf
    GIMP-Change Picture
    Required
    ChangePicture_demo.pdf
    Introduction to Audacity
    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.
    Required
    Introduction to Audacity-fall11.pdf
    Creating a Graph wiht GeoGebra
    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. 
    Required
    Creating_a_graph_demo.pdf
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Bookmarks

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    Name Description Status Source
    Pair-programming
    Video introduction to pair-programming
         		Required www.realsearchgroup.org Edit Pair-programming Delete Pair-programming
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  • Women in computing

    Name Description Status Source
    Women Entrepreneurs in IT
    Interviews of successful women entrpreneurs in IT companies, large and small, even non-profit.
         		Required www.ncwit.org Edit Women Entrepreneurs in IT Delete Women Entrepreneurs in IT
    IBM WIT external links page
    IBM Women in Technology external links page. Provide links to a number of of website concerning women and technology.
         		Required www-03.ibm.com Edit IBM WIT external links page Delete IBM WIT external links page
    IBM WIT Persona page
    Links to two pages full of interviews and portraits of women who made significant contributions at IBM.
    		Required www-03.ibm.com Edit IBM WIT Persona page Delete IBM WIT Persona page
    Grace Hopper Celebration Awards Winner
    Short portraits of the awards winner of the 2009 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
    		Required gracehopper.org Edit Grace Hopper Celebration Awards Winner Delete Grace Hopper Celebration Awards Winner
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  • Computing Careers

    Name Description Status Source
    NCWIT resource page
    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. 
    		Required www.ncwit.org Edit NCWIT resource page Delete NCWIT resource page
    ACM Computing careers
    Computing careers website form the largest international computer science organization, the Association for Computing Machinery.
         		Required computingcareers.acm.org Edit ACM Computing careers Delete ACM Computing careers
    Computing carreer site
    Sloan Career Corner Stone Center, another site to get information about computing careers
         		Required www.careercornerstone.org Edit Computing carreer site Delete Computing carreer site
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Handouts

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  • General Information

    Syllabus
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    CIS 109 syllabus fall 11.pdf
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  • Alice Unit

    You will find here all material for the Alice unit of study.
    Alice Notes
    It contains the reading and exercises referred to in the assignment schedule for the Alice unit.
    Updated August 29
    Required
    Alice-fall11.pdf
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  • Representing Data

    Hexadecimal Numbers-PowerPoint
    Required
    Hexadecimal numbers.pptx
    GraphicExplorer
    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. 
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    GraphicExplorer.zip
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