CIS 120 01 - Computer Sci for the Liberal Arts

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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.
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Handouts

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  • General Information

    Assignment Network
    Updated April 5
    Required
    Assignment Calendar3.pdf
    Alice Assignments
    Updated March 17
    Required
    Alice schedule.pdf
    Assignments Data Representation
    Updated February 22
    Required
    Assignment Calendar.pdf
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  • Networks

    Notes on networks and Graph theory
    Required
    Networks.pdf
    Network Project
    Required
    Network Project-sp10.docx
    Review for Network Test
    Required
    CIS 120 Review for Network Test.pdf
    Review for network test-solutions
    Required
    CIS 120 Review for Network Test-solution.pdf
    Network Presentation
    Required
    NETWORKS and GRAPHS.pptx
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  • HCI

    Web Design
    Web design guidelines
    Required
    HCI web design.pdf
    Web project
    Required
    HCI Project-sp10.pdf
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  • Women in Computing

    Pioneering Women in Computer Science
    Required
    p175-gurer.pdf
    Reading Questions-Pioneering Women
    Required
    CIS 120 Pioneering Women in Computer Science Reading Questions.docx
    Computing 2002: Democracy, Education, and the Future
    Required
    p13-borg.pdf
    The Increasing Scarcity of Women in Information Technology is a Social Justice Issue
    Required
    wardle.pdf
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  • Alice Unit

    You will find here all material for the Alice unit of study.
    Alice Notes
    This file will be updated as we progress throught the unit. It contains the exercises referred to in the assignment schedule.
    Updated March 17
    Required
    Alice-sp10.pdf
    Storyboards Design
    Required
    StoryboardDesign-sp10.ppt
    Practice for Alice test
    Alice test is on Thursday, April 1.
    Solution to the practice test will be posted Wednesday.
    Required
    CIS 120 Alice Practice test-fall09.pdf
    Setting up the Initial scene
    This PowerPoint shows how to create the initial scene in Alice and gives some information about the 3D-object in Alice.
    Required
    SettingUpWorlds.ppt
    Storyboard to code
    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.
    Required
    StoryboardToCode.pdf
    FunctionsAndLoops
    Tuesday, March 16 presentation
    Required
    FunctionsAndLoops.pdf
    InteractivityWithAlice
    Thursday, March 18 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.
    Required
    InteractivityWithAlice.pdf
    Interactivity2
    Thursday March 23 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.
    Required
    Interactivity2.pdf
    KangarooCode-Solutions
    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.
    Required
    KangorooCode.html
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  • Alice Worlds

    In tis section you will find all the Worlds needed for your Alice class work or exercises.
    Princess and Dragon World
    You cannot open this file directly. You must download it first; open Alice, and open the file through Alice.
    Use Firefox to download this file; do not use Internet Explorer.
    Required
    PrincessAndDragon.a2w
    DragonAndPrincess
    World needed for the StoryboardToCode presentation (Thursday, March 4).
    Use Firefox to download this file; do not use Internet Explorer.
    Required
    DragonAndPrincess.a2w
    FlyingDragonAndPrincess
    World needed for Monday, October 12 class.
    Try downloading in Firefox rather than Internet Explorer.
    Required
    FlyingDragonAndPrincess.a2w
    BeetleBand
    World for exercise 7
    Required
    BeetleBand.a2w
    Sound files
    This zipped folder contains the sound files used in the World developed in class on Thursday, March 18.
    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. 
    Required
    sound files.zip
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  • Miscellaneous

    Practice for Alice test-solution
    Required
    Alice Practice test-solution.pdf
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  • Homework

    Homework solutions-Binary and Hexadecimals
    Required
    Bits and Bytes-exercise solutions.pdf
    Binary and hexadecimal practice
    Practice problems on binary and hexadecimal numbers
    Use these problems to review for test1. 
    Solution will be posted later.
    Required
    Binary numbers practice.pdf
    Solutions Bits and Bytes Ex, 12-15
    Scientific notation and floating-point notation exercises solutions
    Required
    BitsandBytesExercises12-15.pdf
    Review for test 1
    Required
    CIS 120 Review for test 1-sp10.pdf
    Review for test 1-Solutions
    Solutions for all problems of test 1 practice, including Binary and Hexadecimal practice.
    Required
    CIS 120 Review for test 1-solutions.pdf
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  • Ungrouped

    GraphicExplorer Demo
    Required
    GraphicExplorer2_demo.swf
    GIMP-Change Picture
    Required
    ChangePicture_demo.swf
    Introduction to Audacity
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    Required
    Introduction to Audacity.pdf
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  • Computing Careers

    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
    ACM Computing careers
    Computing careers website form the largest international computer science organization, the Association for Computing Machinery.
    Required
    computingcareers.acm.org
    Computing carreer site
    Sloan Career Corner Stone Center, another site to get information about computing careers
    Required
    www.careercornerstone.org
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  • Women in computing

    Women Entrepreneurs in IT
    Interviews of successful women entrpreneurs in IT companies, large and small, even non-profit.
    Required
    www.ncwit.org
    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
    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
    Grace Hopper Celebration Awards Winner
    Short portraits of the awards winner of the 2009 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
    Required
    gracehopper.org
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