CIS 120 01 - Computer Sci for the Liberal Arts

About This Course

Welcome to CIS 120!
You will find the syllabus to the course in the Handouts  section below (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 will be pdf files. You must have a pdf file reader to open them. To download Adobe Acrobat Reader, click here.

Handouts

HCI

Web design guidelines
(.pdf, 74K)
Download Web Design

Networks

General Information

Updated October 19
(.pdf, 58K)
Download Alice Assignments

Alice Unit

You will find here all material for the Alice unit of study.
This file will be updated as we progress throught the unit. It contains the exercises referred to in the assignment schedule.
Uploaded October 26.
(.pdf, 369K)
Download Alice Notes
This PowerPoint shows how to create the initial scene in Alice and gives some information about the 3D-object in Alice.
(.ppt, 2277K)
Download Setting up the Initial scene
This PowerPoint presentation has been converted to pdf so that I could insert some demos. It works like theAudacity tutorial.
This pdf file requires Adobe reader 9 ( available in our lab and in the math lab). You can download it for free be clicking here.
To create the animation describe in this presentation download the world called DragonAndPrincess found in Alice Worlds Handouts Section.
(.pdf, 4596K)
Download Storyboard to code
Monday October 12 presentation
(.pdf, 2483K)
Download FunctionsAndLoops
Monday October 19 presentation.
This pdf file requires Adobe reader 9 ( available in our lab and in the math lab). You can download it for free be clicking here.
This presentation uses files found in the Handout "Sound files" and the World named ch04Beetlband found in Alice under the tab textbook.
(.pdf, 1916K)
Download InteractivityWithAlice
This zipped folder contains the sound files used in the World developed in class on Monday October 19.
Since you might not be able to work with zipped folders on school computers the files are also on the Hdrive (H>Mathematics and Computing>Schep>CIS 120) in a non-zipped format. 
(.zip, 3879K)
Download Sound files
Wednesday October 21 presentation.
This pdf file requires Adobe reader 9 ( available in our lab and in the math lab). You can download it for free be clicking here.
(.pdf, 3754K)
Download Interactivity2
This file contains the description of the Alice project. It is important to read the whole project description including the grading rubric.
An assignment in Coursework has been created to upload your completed project.
Deadlines: October 28 and November 6.
(.pdf, 98K)
Download Alice project
This file shows the solution for exercise 6 (the kangorro World). It shows the three methods you needed to add: hop, hopToFence and HopToObject. It also shows the very short my first method.
Method hop and hopToObject are methods of the class Kangorro because they involve only the kangoroo, and method hopToFence is a World method.
(.html, 8K)
Download KangarooCode-Solutions

Alice Worlds

In tis section you will find all the Worlds needed for your Alice class work or exercises.
You cannot open this file directly. You must download it first; open Alice, and open the file through Alice.
(.a2w, 1021K)
Download Princess and Dragon World
World needed for the Storyboard to code presentation (Friday, October 9).
(.a2w, 3440K)
Download DragonAndPrincess
World needed for Monday, October 12 class.
Try downloading in Firefox rather than Internet Explorer.
(.a2w, 3441K)
Download FlyingDragonAndPrincess

Notes

 Bits and Bytes
These are the notes you will need for the first unit of the course on data representation that will run through September 30. The section on graphics  is best viewed directly on the computer to capture the picutres colors and details. The other sections can be printed (although you can try to save a few trees!).
If you want to download the document to your computer, right-click the link and choose "save link as" (or equivalent on Internet Explorer) and follow the dialog box instruction to save the file.
(.pdf, 431K)
Download Representing Data

Homework

Practice problems on binary and hexadecimal numbers
Use these problems to review for test1. 
Solution will be posted later.
(.pdf, 12K)
Download Binary and hexadecimal practice
Scientific notation and floating-point notation exercises solutions
(.pdf, 74K)
Download Solutions Bits and Bytes Ex, 14-17
5 bonus points on test 1 if you complete the practice problems by Wednesday, September 30 and show them to me at the beginning of class. No bonus points for late work.
(.pdf, 100K)
Download Review for test 1
Solutions for all problems of test 1 practice, including Binary and Hexadecimal practice.
(.pdf, 92K)
Download Review for test 1-Solutions

Ungrouped

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
Alice test is on Friday, October 31.
Solution to the practice test will be posted Thursday.
(.pdf, 814K)
Download Practice for Alice test

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Tutorials and Demos

Ungrouped

This pdf file requires Adobe reader 9 ( available in our lab and in the math lab). You can download it for free be clicking here.
(.pdf, 1995K)
Download Introduction to Audacity

Bookmarks

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

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