| CSE has an award for outstanding TAs | |
| The Bob Bandes Award | |
| www.cs.washington.edu/education/bandes.html | |
| If your TA did great, vote! |
| Fluency has been a huge amount of work … have you learned anything??? |
| FIT100 is designed to … | ||
| Make you better users today | ||
| Prepare you to learn more IT as you need it through out your life | ||
| Upgrade your thinking, making you a better reasoner, problem solver, trouble-shooter, etc. | ||
| We covered the following topics | ||
| Importance of vocabulary: abstraction | ||
| Learning an app on your own: click/blaze | ||
| Basics of the Internet, domains, TCP/IP, ... | ||
| HTML programming: tags, tags, tags | ||
| Structuring information, queries, Google | ||
| Truth or Fiction? Bogus Web Page | ||
| Debugging guidelines … how to do it | ||
| Digital representation -- using bits | ||
| Computer basics and Si technology | ||
| Algorithms -- sorting with pizza boxes | ||
| Programming ideas Purple Concentrate | ||
| Building a GUI in HTML/JavaScript | ||
| Functions -- biggest idea in software | ||
| Iteration, looping over & over & over & | ||
| Animation, making things happen | ||
| Problem solving, PERT charts, examples | |||
| JavaScript summary, and review | |||
| loops, prefetching, animation, mouseOver, functions, ... | |||
| Digital Media, colorizing, binary, MP3, | ||
| Database basics, operations on tables | ||
| Logical Databases -- views and queries | ||
| DB design chalk talk SLAMA | ||
| Netiquette, viruses, worms, email | ||
| Privacy -- opt-in/opt-out, you decide | ||
| Encryption, hiding secrets from every1 | ||
| Do computers think? Turing tests | ||
| … and today the wrap-up | ||
| Fluency topics can be classified as | ||
| Skills | ||
| Concepts | ||
| Capabilities | ||
| Skills are the ability to use computers today to solve your problems | |||
| You have learned new applications … FTP, Photoshop, Access, … | |||
| Better yet, you’ve learned how to learn applications: “Click Around,” “Blaze Away” | |||
| You should be an aggressive, confident user | |||
| Could you learn your next application on your own? | |||
| Concepts are the foundation of future learning … you should be ready | |||
| You know how the Internet’s TCP/IP works (postcards), how a computer works (F/E cycle), how JavaScript makes animations | |||
| And privacy, netiquette, writing queries, ... | |||
| We don’t know what the next technology will be, but it will look familiar to you because you’ll see ideas you know | |||
| The most ambitious goal of this class is to expand your thinking | |||
| Reasoning, debugging, finding information, designing pages or databases, problem solving, research, expecting unexpected,… | |||
| It’s not easy to learn these things … was debugging ever fun??? | |||
| All capabilities will be used beyond IT! | |||
| Our experience in this class will make FIT100 better for UW students, and students across the world |
| We’ll do course evaluation … | ||
| It’s voluntary, but I hope you do it | ||
| Two forms, white and yellow | ||
| Use #2 pencil to bubble in results | ||
| I need a volunteer to collect evals | ||