CIS 120 02 - Comp Sci for the Liberal Arts (H)

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 are 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

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.
Updated October 26
(.pdf, 1573K)
Download Alice Notes

Alice Worlds

In tis section you will find all the Worlds needed for your Alice class work or exercises.
Complete World after section 2
(.a2w, 619K)
Download Snowwoman and Penguin-sect2
Word for exercise 6
(.a2w, 244K)
Download AliceExercise6
World for exercise 7 to 10
(.a2w, 2028K)
Download WizardHockeyGame
Complete World after section 4
(.a2w, 636K)
Download SnowwomaAndPenguin-sect4
World needed for exercise 18
(.a2w, 363K)
Download JoeyFenceAndTree
SnowwomanAndPenguin World at end of section 5
(.a2w, 736K)
Download SnowwomanAndPenguin-sect5
World for Alice section 7
(.a2w, 8974K)
Download Interactive world
Sound files for Alice section 7 & 8
(.zip, 637K)
Download Sound files

Notes

 Bits and Bytes
These are the notes you will need for the unit of the course on data representation that will run through Fall Break. The section on graphics  is best viewed directly on the computer to capture the colors and details of the pictures. This is the same file as the one on your CD except I just discovered that the conversion to PDF eliminated most of the formulas in the first part of the document. Hence the Word document on KC. Refer to this Web version for the sections on numbers.
(.docx, 1485K)
Download 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

Networks

A graph in Sketchpad
(.gsp, 3K)
Download GraphExample
The test on network is Thursday, September 9. The problems in this review and the homework exercises are good preparation for the test. It will be a short  test (about 30 min.)
Solutions to the review will be posted on Wednesday at noon. It is very recommended to complete the problems BEFORE viewing the solutions. 
(.pdf, 13K)
Download Review for Network 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

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