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2005 Mar 4, No Course in Fall 2005. Because of declining enrollments, the department does not plan to offer this course in the fall.
Dec 15, Course Grades. They have been submitted to the registrar. If you want to see the graded version of your topic report, send me an email. -- dg
Happy Holidays!
Nov 25, History of Data Bases. A link to Prof. Budinsky's Power Point slides is posted on
Week 14.
Nov 17, Guest Lecture Rescheduled. The lecture on databases has been rescheduled for next Tuesday, Nov 23.
Nov 1, Week 11 Reading. The video tomorrow will make a lot more sense if you've done the reading for this week. That would be Week 11.
Oct 27, Paper Copy of Assigned Reports. Reminder: You need to turn in a paper copy of your report in class as well as make your electronic submission.
Oct 19, Revision of Week 9 Report Assignment. I have posted a minor
revision of the weekly report assignment that is due this week.
Oct 17, Topic Report Draft. This assignment is now
posted under Week 11.
Oct 17, Mid-Semester Grades. If you want to know your grade,
send me an email request. They were computed at the end of Week 7.
That includes your topic report proposal. Because these grades were
computed at the middle of the semester, I dropped only two classroom
assignments (instead of four) and only one weekly report (instead of two).
Oct 4, Reminder. You cannot drop any of the three topic report assignments. Those three are the proposal, the draft, and the final report.
Sep 28, Example Report. For an example of a well written
report, see the one by Jacob Leverich that now appears on my
Henry Briggs
page. You would all be happy to receive the score that was given to
this report. Bear in mind that this report was done with the
reference format for 2003 rather than the one we are using this year.
Sep 24, Week 6 Report. For the Assigned Reading choice of topic, you can choose any subtopic that is covered within any of the pages of
the assigned reading.
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Night Owl Warning
I am happy to answer email
questions, but be advised. I am not the night owl that some of you
are. My prime working hours are on the other side of the clock, early
in the morning. So time your email accordingly.
Sep 16, Weeks 2 and 3 Reports. By request, here are the mean and median scores for these reports.
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2
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3
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82.5
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80.1
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89.5
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90.5
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Sep 15, No Need to Archive CBC. If you make
references to Computing Before Computers, you don't need to
save a copy. Put an access date in the reference as usual, but you
don't need to link it to anything. This will help you conserve web
space.
Sep 7, Week 2 Reports. They have been graded and returned
to the email address in the class roster. If you submitted a report
and haven't received the graded one, send an email to Mr. Glass
(Instructors) telling him
where to send it.
Sep 1, Web Page Updates, 12:30pm. I am updating some of my
web pages related to Week 2. If a page or its information is missing,
try again in about five minutes.
Aug 26, First Class, Failure Prevention. Based on previous
classes, many students do not have an adequate working
knowledge of the material about citations and references that will be
covered in the first class. Without it you run a serious risk of
failing this course because of plagiarism. A word to the wise should be sufficient!
Aug 21, Code of Conduct. This class will operate under the
Code of Conduct
(1) of the Department of Computer Sciences.
Apr 21, Preliminary Information. The information here may
change up through the first day of class. For a preview of the course,
see the ones for 2002 and 2003. The amount of writing required may increase
somewhat over what currently is stated here, but it won't be a lot. I
also strongly recommend RHE 306 as a prerequisite
for this course. Without it, you will have a hard time.
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