Description

Welcome to CS101: Preview of Computer Science!

Computer science is not programming: programming is just one of several of the computer scientist's tools. The class will introduce you to a variety of computer science topics, taught both by the professor and by various faculty in the department and other guest lecturers.

General Information

Requirements to Take this Class
1. You must be a CS or Applied CS major. Likely majors may take the class with permission of the instructor.

2. All new CS or Applied CS majors must take this class at the same time as their first CS class (typically CS112, CS211, CS310, or CS367). We will teach CS101 in the Spring semester.

3. If your first CS class is not CS112, you may need to learn some basic Python. The professor will be glad to assist you in this.
Grading
Grading will be based on a combination of the following factors, each weighted approximately the same:

1. Class attendance and participation.

2. Participation in various sanctioned external activities and lectures related to computer science.

3. Seeing your academic advisor at some point during the semester.

4. A group project, with some possible warm-up exercises.
Contact Information
Prof. Zoran Duric: zduric@cs.gmu.edu

Nalini Vishnoi (GTA): nvishnoi@cs.gmu.edu
Michael Bowen (UTA): mbowen7@masonlive.gmu.edu
Sam Gelman (UTA): sgelman@masonlive.gmu.edu
Anna Papadogiannakis (UTA): apapado2@masonlive.gmu.edu

Announcements

Final Grades
12/16/13 4:00 PM

Final Grades for CS 101 have been posted.

If you have any questions, please email Prof. Zoran Duric (zduric@cs.gmu.edu).

Students with an IN grade would be receiving an email shortly about what they need to submit to get an S.

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Important Announcements
12/12/13 2:58 PM

1. Grades will be assigned Friday evening 12.13.2013 (after 4pm). Make sure you turn in everything to the TA (nvishnoi@cs.gmu.edu) you need to submit by this time. You can drop off your papers in the TA mail box. It is inside CS office on the 4th floor of the Engineering building.
You can ask anybody there about the TA mail boxes. It should be accessible between 9am-5pm.

Once you leave them there, let me know through an email that you have done so.


2. Students looking for their last activity can attend this:

http://c4i.gmu.edu/events/seminar-series-theories-and-models-for-forecasting-innovation-a-proof-of-concept-for-scicast-prediction-market/

As usual, signature, notes and a 1-page summary is required.

3. Some groups have not turned in either their iRobots or Final project form (they should have received an email from me already). Please note that, if you are unable to satisfy all the requirements you may be eligible to get an NC/IN grade.

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Order of Final Project Presentations on Thursday 12/05/2013
12/03/13 6:04 PM

The Final Project presentations on Dec 5th will be done in the following order:

 

1. R25

2. R28

3. R30

4. R32

5. R33

6. R8

7. R20

8. R22

Important: All the above groups need to send their slides by the end of day Dec 4th 11:59 pm.
All groups will be given 5 minutes to present and 2 min for Q/A session.
We recommend to have a video backup of your project demo in case the live demo runs into some problem.

Please follow the guidelines on post @8 for Final Report and Final Presentation AND Slides!

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Order of Final Project Presentations on Tuesday 12/03/2013
12/02/13 2:19 AM

The Final Project presentations on Dec 3rd will be done in the following order:

1. R35

2. R36

3. R38

4. R7

5. R10

6. R12

7. R13

8. R14

9. R21

10. R25


Important: All the above groups need to send their slides by the end of day Dec 2nd 11:59 pm.
All groups will be given 5 minutes to present and 2 min for Q/A session.
We recommend to have a video backup of your project demo in case the live demo runs into some problem.

Please follow the guidelines on post @8 for Final Report and Final Presentation AND Slides!

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Students interested in Inventors Club official positions
11/26/13 12:20 PM

Please find below an email from the acting president of GMU Inventors Club:

My name is Barnabas and I am the founder and acting president of the GMU Inventors Club.
Several of your CS 101 students attended our 3-D Printer / Entreprenuer event. Thank you for letting them know about it.
 
A few of the students were interested in learning more about becoming officers of the club.
I do not have the club sign up list with me so I am not able to contact some of the students that were interested.
 
I was wondering if you can make an announcement to your class to let them know that if they are interested in learning more about becoming a club officer of the Inventors Club that they should email us at sci@gmu.edu.
 
And for those that are interested and available today at 4:30, I will be meeting with some of the students in the machine shop at 4:30 for about 15 or 20 minutes about becoming an officer for the GMU Inventors Club http://inventors.gmu.edu.
 
Thank you.
 
Regards,
 
Barnabas

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Order of Final Project Presentations on Tuesday 11/26/2013
11/24/13 2:52 PM

The Final Project presentations on Nov 26th will be done in the following order:


1. R3
2. R17
3. R18

4. R19

5. R24

6. R26

7. R27

8. R29

9. R34

10. R31

Important: All the above groups need to send their slides by the end of day tomorrow Nov 25th 11:59 pm.
All groups will be given 5 minutes to present and 2 min for Q/A session.
We recommend to have a video backup of your project demo in case the live demo runs into some problem.

Please follow the guidelines on post @8 for Final Report and Final Presentation AND Slides!

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All activities, in-class lecture summaries and advisor checklist due on Nov 21st
11/19/13 2:41 PM

All remaining activities, in-class lecture summaries and advisor checklist would be due on Nov 21st, Thursday during the class.

Bring all the papers/sheets inside a single folder and write your name on top of it.

You can make a copy of the sheet(s) for yourself to keep.

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Order of Final Project Presentations on Thursday 11/21/2013
11/19/13 2:27 PM

The Final Project presentations on Nov 21st will be done in the following order:


1. R1
2. R2
3. R4

4. R5

5. R6

6. R9

7. R11

8. R16

9. R23

10. R15

Important: All the above groups need to send their slides by the end of day tomorrow Nov 20th 11:59 pm.
All groups will be given 5 minutes to present and 2 min for Q/A session.
We recommend to have a video backup of your project demo in case the live demo runs into some problem.

Please follow the guidelines on post @8 for Final Report and Final Presentation AND Slides!

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Staff Office Hours
NameOffice Hours
Zoran Duric
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Chaoran Lu
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Nalini Vishnoi
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Michael Bowen
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Anna Papadogiannakis
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Sam Gelman
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Lecture Notes

Lecture Notes
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