CS Head Start

Fall 2019

Tuesday

09:00 – 09:30am Warmup
09:30 – 10:45am Python Programming
10:45 – 11:00am 15m Break
11:00 – 12:00pm Python Programming
12:00 – 01:00pm Lunch

Students are encouraged to eat on campus using their meal plans or dons dollars. See the dining page for details.

01:00 – 02:00pm Active Study – Part 1

This is a workshop offered by Rachel Brunson, Assistant Director with the Learning Center. The workshop description is:

Students have many different approaches to learning and studying. It is important to recognize and build upon the active study skills that work best for you and will help lead you to academic success. This workshop provides an introduction to “The Study Cycle” as well as tools to identify your current study methods that are working and those that could be improved. The aim of this workshop is to help you maximize your study efforts throughout your college career.

02:00 – 03:00pm Career Services

This is a presentation by Miriam Karpilow, Director of Employer Relations with the Priscilla A. Scotlan Career Services Center.

03:00 – 03:30pm 30m Break
03:30 – 04:00pm Using Unix

This will be a continuation of the “Using Unix” lesson started on Monday. See the Monday schedule for a list of resources.

Some of the commands and concepts demonstrated include: ., .., ~, *, man, date, pwd, ls, cd, mkdir, rmdir, touch, cp, mv, rm, cat, head, tail, more, less, python

04:00 – 04:30pm Digital Scavenger Hunt

Use what you have learned to discover the correct hidden poem! It is hidden somewhere on the CS lab computers at:

/home/sjengle/hunt

You should first attempt to discover the hidden poem on your own. Once you have discovered the answer, try helping out someone that hasn’t! The only rules are you cannot tell them the answer directly, can only suggest commands to try, and cannot type on anyone else’s keyboard.

04:30 – 05:00pm CS Unplugged

We will do a modified version of Parity Magic exercise from the CS Unplugged website in class.

You can try this exercise online to test whether you can guess the error using parity bits.

05:00 – 06:00pm Dinner

Students are encouraged to eat on campus using their meal plans or dons dollars. See the dining page for details.

06:00 – 08:00pm Social

Chia and Pablo from the Diversineers student group will be hosting an evening social. Light snacks will be provided.