CPSC 115-01: due Monday, September 13
CPSC 115-02: due Tuesday, September 14
1. About yourself
First, on page 1, please tell me
your name,
how you want to be called,
if you have taken CPSC 110, when and from whom,
if there are any, other computer science courses you have taken at Trinity
or high school,
if there are any, programming languages you have learned, and
why you are taking this course.
2. About computer science
The second part is a short essay assignment. For this, review what you have
learned this week and then watch the following two short video clips:
E. Lazowska,
Changing the world,
Computing Research That Changed the World: Reflections and Perspectives,
Computing Research Association, Washington, D.C.,
Mar. 25, 2009.
L. von Ahn,
Human computation,
Computing Research That Changed the World: Reflections and Perspectives,
Computing Research Association, Washington, D.C.,
Mar. 25, 2009.
On page 2, in approximately 300 words, answer the following two questions.
Before you signed up for this course, what was your image of computer
science as a subject of study?
After spending one week in this course and watching these video clips,
has your image changed? What is computer science to you now?
