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CS110: Welcome to Lecture 1

CS110: Introduction to Computer Science. CS110: Welcome to Lecture 1. Today’s Topics Course Syllabus Blackboard Technology Usability Personal Portals Information Search and Web2.0 Bookmarking and Notebooks Social Networking. Prepared by Fred Annexstein University of Cincinnati

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CS110: Welcome to Lecture 1

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  1. CS110: Introduction to Computer Science CS110: Welcome to Lecture 1 • Today’s Topics • Course Syllabus • Blackboard • Technology Usability • Personal Portals • Information Search and Web2.0 • Bookmarking and Notebooks • Social Networking Prepared by Fred Annexstein University of Cincinnati CC Some rights reserved. 2007

  2. CS110: Introduction to Computer Science Contact Information Professor Fred Annexstein Email: fred.annexstein@uc.edu Office Hours: MW 11-1 and by appointment Rhodes 889 Tel:556-1807

  3. CS110: Introduction to Computer Science Syllabus Motivation and Objectives:This class is designed as an introduction to the concepts and practice of Computer Science. Students will leave the class with a better understanding of the nature of computers and computer programming, and improved skills in numerical literacy and communication. Students will be better prepared to model and solve real-world problems using these machines. Grading Scheme: The grading for this class will be based on the contents in a portfolio created by each student. The portfolio will be maintained on a public website and contain the student’s work on homework projects and approximately 8 laboratory modules. The student will receive quarterly feedback on the state of his/her portfolio. A student receiving a satisfactory grade on all assigned homework and projects will receive a grade of at least a B. To receive a grade of A, a student must complete a final project acceptable to the instructor and exhibiting exceptional creativity. No other exams will be given.

  4. CS110: Introduction to Computer Science Tentative Topic Outline Week 1: Intro to Computing Technologies - Build Personalized PortfolioWeek 2: Physical Simulations – Scratch Programming Week 3: Apportionment Problems – Using Excel to Compute Fairness of our Electoral System Week 4: Modeling Environment – Sea Levels Are Rising, but how far?

  5. CS110: Introduction to Computer Science Topic Outline Week 5-7: Lego Mindstorms http://mindstorms.lego.com/buildinginstructions/ Week 8: SecurityPrivacy, Cryptography and Spam Filters Week 9: Graphics and Computer Games 3D rendering, programmingWeek 10: iPod Apps – Collaborative computing

  6. Blackboard -> Communication -> Collaboration -> Join Office Hours Chat-> Discussion Boards -> Introduce Yourself

  7. UCFILESPACE -> Communication -> Collaboration -> Join Office Hours Chat-> Discussion Boards -> Introduce Yourself

  8. Create a Personal Homepage on UCFILESPACE-> Introduce Yourself

  9. AppendixSeven Steps on a Path to a better Web Experience 1. Switch from Internet Explorer to Firefox. • Firefox is available here and can be downloaded for free. It offers several advantages that will help you be more productive on the web. 2. Personalize Firefox with useful add-ons. • The advantage of Firefox is in its add-on capabilities. They are usually added by a simple click of the mouse. • There are several search add-ons that are essential for improving your ability to find high quality information: • Citeseer Plugin - search over most of the relevant Computer Science research proceedings! • WorldCat Search Plugin - search the world’s libraries • UC Libraries Search Plugin- search our excellent local resource

  10. Start Right Now: Create Your Launching Pad into Cyberspace 3. Set up Netvibes or Google IG. • Netvibes and IG are examples of new personalized portal services. Here is an image of my own IG portal.

  11. RSS Feeds 4. Add RSS Information Feeds to your portal • Some boxes in IG are small applications, like a notepad, calendar, and “to do” list. • However, most of the boxes are bringing RSS feeds to my homepage. An RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed is a way for news organizations, academic journals, book publishers, and virtually anybody who distributes information to distribute that information without any markup or formatting, so that your own browser or website can format it and make it look how you like it on your own page. • Now add any RSS feed to your IG or Netvibes page. • Use feeds from your favorite sites, and thus viewable on one single page. • Suggestion: there are several very good Computer Science and Technolgy RSS feeds which you can add to your site. Slashdot: http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot IEEE Computer Society: http://bell.computer.org/rss/index.jsp

  12. One Page is Never Enough: Setting up multiple homepages 5. Use Bookmarks in conjunction with Firefox tabs • Google Notebooks is an excellent add-on tool to use while surfing save bookmarks or clip parts of pages as you go • In Firefox you can exploit tabbed browsing to keep several pages open at once. Use bookmarks opened in tabbed browsing allows you to set multiple pages as your starting points. The following sites are good starting points, they help me while I am doing research: • IGoogle Netvibes Univ-Cincinnati Blackboard • UC Libraries Google-Book-Search • ACM Digital Library Citeseer Wikipedia Facebook • 6. Social Bookmarking is a new concept that enables you to collaborate and see what other sites are popular: see diigo, del.icio.us, CiteULike… The main purpose of these services is: • * share your bookmarks with others • * see what other people have bookmarked who have similar interests as you

  13. Tired of Clicking: Let Information Rain on You 7. Create news alerts on topics that interest you. • Use Google News Alerts service brings news that interests you directly to your inbox as it happens. Just type in a keyword (such as “computer science” and/or “software”) and any news item that contains that word will come to your inbox as soon as it hits the news! One or two last points…..Don’t use regular Google as your primary search method for research papers. If you want high quality resources you need to find those that have gone through a rigorous review before being published. Anybody can publish a webpage. Realize that this is just the beginning. Check out the class weblog http://intro2cs.blogspot.com to see other sights. Please add your comments and share how these sights can help you do better research and be more productive on the web. "A fool learns from his experience. A wise person learns from the experience of others." (Otto von Bismarck, German Chancellor, 1815 - 1898)

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