COURSE DESCRIPTION CLASS INFO: 20280 *#CS 4000 004 Personal Computing Lec 3.0 20281 *#CS 4002 004 Personal Computing Lab 0.0 CLASS TIMES: W 19:00-21:00 L-162 (Lecture) W 21:00-22:00 L-125C (Lab) INSTRUCTOR: John Sarraille, Professor, Computer Science Dept OFFICE: CS102B, phone 667-3345. OFFICE HOURS: T 13:00-14:30, W 09:00-12:30 TEXTS: 1. Computer Confluence: exploring tomorrow's technology, second edition, by George Beekman, published 1997 by Benjamin/Cummings. 2. Claris Works for Macintosh, by C. Ann Brown, Peachpit Press 3. Projects for the Internet, by Linda Ericksen and Emily Kim, Addison- Wesley 4. CS 4000 Course Packet, by John Sarraille Items 1-3 can be purchased, bundled together, at KIVA bookstore. The price is nearly identical to the cost of item 1 sold by itself. Item 4 contains all the course project assignments. You need to do the assignments to pass the course, and you need item 4 to get the assignments. (Note: There were some problems with the bookstore order associated with this class. The course text materials listed above may not be available until the end of this week, or early next week.) MATERIALS NEEDED: Two 3.5" double or high density disks: one for your class files, one for backup. You will need to obtain these floppy disks right away. We will be using them during the lab of the second week of class. COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course is about using computers effectively for personal work. You will be using a computer to process words and numbers (word processing and spreadsheets), to manipulate information (databases), to communicate (electronic mail) and to use resources available on a world wide computer network. Class time will be divided between lecture, discussion time, quizzes, and lab activities. You will need to spend a very considerable amount of the time outside of class doing assignments and practicing with software. I will expect you to do each day's reading before the class begins and I prefer that you participate in class discussions. I will use a Macintosh computer and ClarisWorks 4.0 software for our classroom demonstrations. Macintosh computers with ClarisWorks 4.0 installed are available for your use in the Macintosh lab (L-125). If you want to use another kind of computer or use different software for one assignment or another, that is fine with me and you may do so. However, you may find the details of the operation of the computer or software to be quite different than what I show in class, particularly if the computer you use is not a Macintosh. GRADING: When I grade an assignment I ask myself: Does this work satisfy the requirements of the assignment? Does the work indicate that the student understood the assignment? Was the work taken seriously and done with care? If the answer to all these questions is 'yes' then the assignment gets an A. Otherwise, it gets something less. It is your responsibility to understand the assignments, to schedule your time so that you can complete them on time, and to make a sincere effort to do the work correctly. Late work will not be accepted, which means that it will receive a grade of zero. There will be 13 graded activities: 3 Article Reviews, 2 quizzes, and 8 Computing Projects. Each of these items will be graded on a 100-point scale and each will contribute equally to your final grade. You will lose a significant amount of points on any assignment that does not completely satisfy its requirements. Read assignment announcements carefully. If you have questions, you need to raise them in class, well before the assignment is due.