Jeff's August 25 Class Notes
[Note: this webpage last modified Friday, 04-Feb-2011 19:44:51 EST]
- Hand out syllabus and go over a few key points.
- Groups of 2 people introduce each other.
- Go to the course website.
Go to blackboard and view the quiz for today's lecture.
- Today's attendance quiz.
- Hand out the first homework.
- Install JES on computers, play around with it. Working in pairs, and
working with someone different each week.
- The assigned reading for the next lecture, what we will talk
about next time.
- Todo in a later lecture perhaps: reading from
Amelia Bedelia -
she is just like a computer (takes things literally, be careful what
instructions you give her, ha ha...)
- Todo in a later lecture perhaps:
the classic peanut butter and jelly algorithm demonstration.
- Todo on your own time: Watch Scott Aaronson's explanation of
"the future of CS".