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CT 100

CT 100. Computational Thinking for Everyone. Syllabus. Professor Hunt 213 Wing Technology campus email: khunt@uwlax.edu campus phone: 608.785.7822 campus web site: charity.cs.uwlax.edu Refer to charity.cs.uwlax.edu/ct100 for full syllabus. Computational Thinking. How to think

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CT 100

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  1. CT 100 Computational Thinking for Everyone

  2. Syllabus • Professor Hunt • 213 Wing Technology • campus email: khunt@uwlax.edu • campus phone: 608.785.7822 • campus web site: charity.cs.uwlax.edu • Refer to charity.cs.uwlax.edu/ct100 for full syllabus

  3. Computational Thinking • How to think • like a computer scientist/software engineer • like a geek • like a computer nerd • like the graduate with a real job and great pay

  4. Will you use CT?

  5. Ubiquitous: Bigger than just CS

  6. 4-Year College Degreeswith Highest starting salary Taken from Forbes article: January 2013 http://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-college-degrees-with-the-highest-starting-salaries-204949790.html

  7. Areas related to Computers http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos304.htm • Electrical Engineering (EE) • Focuses on hardware design of electrical devices • EE's design and make power supplies, electric motors, digital cameras, MRI's, etc… • Computer Engineering (CE) • Focuses on digital electronics • CE's design and make electronic chips for a wide variety of computing systems • Computer Science (CS) • Focuses on writing software to control the hardware • Software Engineering (SE) • Focuses on managing the development of large software system • Information Systems (IS) • Focuses on understanding how the needs of a company can be met by technology

  8. Definitions • Computer hardware: • The physical parts of a computer • Computer program: • A group of instructions that cause the computer to perform some specific task • Computer software: • one or more computer program(s)

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