Who? What? When?

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Who? What? When?

• CSE 1111 - 002
• Introduction to Computer ScienceEngineering
• Time Thursdays 400 450pm
• Place 100 Nedderman Hall (NH)
• Instructor Dr. Lynn Peterson
• Office 307 NH (or 625 NH)
• Phone [phone] or 5503 (voice-mail)
• Email address peterson_at_uta.edu
• Class web site crystal.uta.edu/cse1111/

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Catalog Course Description

• CSE 1111, 1 hour credit.
• Topics include problem solving, ethics, and
  contemporary issues in computer science and
  engineering.
• Students will demonstrate competence in word
  processing, spreadsheets, research and library
  skills. Emphasis is placed on team building,
  oral and written communication skills.
• Primarily for students pursuing a degree in the
  Computer Science and Engineering Department.

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Course Objectives

• 1       To make students aware of ethical and
  other contemporary issues in computer science and
  engineering (CSE), in an environment in which
  they are asked to think about the issues, form
  opinions backed up by reasons, and discuss /
  defend those opinions.

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Course Objectives

• 2 To allow students to work with problem
  solving (critical thinking) techniques, and the
  application of those techniques to a variety of
  problems.

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Course Objectives

• 3     To give students the opportunity to
  demonstrate competence in word processing,
  spreadsheets, research and library skills.
• These topics are not taught in the course, but
  materials are provided so that students who are
  not already proficient in these areas can work to
  gain the required competence.
• Successful demonstration of these competencies is
  necessary to complete this course, but these
  topics will not enter into computation of the
  course grade.

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Course Objectives

• 3     To give students the opportunity to
  demonstrate competence in word processing,
  spreadsheets, research and library skills.
• These topics are not taught in the course, but
  materials are provided so that students who are
  not already proficient in these areas can work to
  gain the required competence.
• Successful demonstration of these competencies is
  necessary to complete this course, but these
  topics will not enter into computation of the
  course grade.

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Course Objectives

• 3     To give students the opportunity to
  demonstrate competence in word processing,
  spreadsheets, research and library skills.
• These topics are not taught in the course, but
  materials are provided so that students who are
  not already proficient in these areas can work to
  gain the required competence.
• Successful demonstration of these competencies is
  necessary to complete this course, but these
  topics will not enter into computation of the
  course grade.

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Course Objectives

• 4    To give students the opportunity to gain
  experience in working in teams as well as
  preparing individual portions of required work.
  The intention is to allow entering students an
  opportunity to work with groups of CSE students
  whom they will meet in other courses.

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Textbook

• Readings will be from the web and the UTA
  Library on-line materials.
• (No textbook is required this semester.)
• Good reference Johnson, D.
• Computer Ethics (3rd edition/2000),
• Prentice Hall.

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Grading

• Grades will be letter grades A through F.
  
• The course grade is made up as follows
• Homework / laboratory / workshop 20
• Oral presentation(s), group work 40
• Quizzes 20
• Final exam 20

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Quizzes

• Several times during the semester, there will be
  announced quizzes (announced 2 weeks in advance).
  
• Occasionally there may be unannounced quizzes,
  covering reading assignments or material from a
  previous class.
• In this way, attendance in class will count.
  (Unless arranged in advance, there will be no
  makeups)

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Computer Use Proficiency (CUP)

• CUP, as required by the University, is
  demonstrated for CSE majors in CSE 1111.
• So, demonstration of proficiency in
• (1) word processing,
• (2) spreadsheets,
• (3) library skills,
• (4) use of the internet and
• (5) email
• are required for satisfactory completion of the
  course, but measurement of these skills will not
  enter into the computation of the final grade.

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Computer Use Proficiency (CUP)

• During Weeks 2 4 of CSE 1111,
• TAs will be available at specific hours to allow
  students to demonstrate the ability to do word
  processing using Word and manipulate a
  spreadsheet using Excel.
• Later, there is an assignment involving finding
  information on the internet and sending e-mail.
• Later, instruction is provided on using the UTA
  Library on-line resources for research.

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Word exam

•  Students should be able to create, modify, save
  and print a document.
• The university requires demonstration of the
  following abilities in Microsoft Word.
• Create a file
• Cut and paste text
• Copy text
• Save material to a file / name that file
• Underline text
• Bold face text
• Italicize text
• Justify text
• Change font size
• Change font face
• Double space the document
• Change margins
• Create a bulleted list
• Spell check the document
• Do something that likely requires use of the word
  processors Help facility, such as creating a
  table.

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Word exam

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• Students should be able to create, modify,
• save and print a document.
• There is a complete listing of the required
  skills for each of the CUP requirements. See
  the class web site (under CUP) for that listing.

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Academic Honesty

• Ethical Behavior in a Student Role ----
• CHEATING on quizzes or exams, PLAGIARISM, or
• COLLUSION will not be tolerated at UT
  Arlington
• Student Handbook p. 92.
• The College of Engineering Statement of Ethics
  is provided for you (on the class web site) to
  read, sign, return, and follow.

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Contacting the Instructors

• Email will be the best way to communicate with
  your instructor outside of class. For this
  communication, use
• There will also be several teaching assistants
  (TAs) available to work with this class in
  various capacities which will be announced in
  class. Email for TAs will be provided as needed.
• NOTE Homework and Computer Use
  Proficiency requirements should be submitted
  to the email addresses specified for each
  assignment. Credit will only be given for work
  submitted to the correct address.

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Time for CSE 1111

• In general for the College of Engineering,
• 1 hour of class time and 2-3 hours of
  out-of-class time are planned for each credit
  hour of class.
• This is true for CSE 1111 also.

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Questionnaire

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Notes for Week 1

• Today, notes are available in class in hard copy
  form as well as available on the class web site
  for viewing and for downloading.
• Class notes will always be available on the web
  site for viewing and downloading (and therefore
  for printing if you wish).

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Notes for Week 1

• For Thursday 1/23/03
•   1 Obtain a UT Arlington email account, or be
  sure you already have an email account which
• allows you to send attachments and
• has its reply-to set to your own account.
  
• If the account name is not your own name,
  include your name in every email message you
  send.
• If you are not clear on following these
  instructions, stay after class for a few minutes
  to clarify this.

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Notes for Week 1

•   2 Using that email account, send email to
  your instructor, with
• subject line Intro Your Name
• (For example Intro - Mary Smith.)
• sent to peterson_at_uta.edu as soon as you obtain
  an account but before 1/23/03
• Contents
• introduce yourself (including your name, your
  email address) and then tell a little about
  yourself (including something interesting that
  makes you unique . something you dont mind
  other people knowing about.)

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Notes for Week 1

•   3 Locate College of Engineering Ethics
  Statement on the class web site .
• Read and print it.
• Q uestions? discuss with your instructor.
• Otherwise, sign and return on 1/23/03.

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Notes for Week 1

•   4 Readings are from the web.
• Topic for week What is Computer Ethics?
• You are to find some information about that
  topic on the web. 2 sources to get you started
  (but you can find others)
• http//www.onlineethics.org
• http//library.thinkquest.org/26658/links.html

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Notes for Week 1

•   4 Answer questions using web resources.
• If you use any of the information from one of
  the web pages directly, be sure to cite your
  source.
• 1) What kinds of problems that existed prior to
  computers have been changed or made more
  difficult thanks to computers?
• (Identify at least 4, and describe each in 1-2
  sentences)
• 2)  For each one of these problems,
  how is it related to ethics?
• (Describe in 1-2 sentences)
• 3)  In general, how are laws related
  to ethical issues?
• Put your answers to these questions in a text
  file or a Word file, and save that file for later
  use. If not clear, stay after class .

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Notes for Week 1

•   5 Computer Use Proficiency (CUP)
• Prepare for the Word and Excel exams, and make
  plans to sign up for the Word test ---
• schedule will begin 1/23/03.
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To recap

• Before you leave today, be sure you
• have the syllabus Notes for Week 1
• have turned in the completed questionnaire
• know how to access the class web site to get the
  additional materials

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Volunteer Opportunity

• URGENT Volunteers Needed
• DFW FUTURE CITY COMPETITION
• The Future City Competition - sponsored by
  National Engineers Week is
• designed to inspire 7-8th grade students with
  engineering by challenging them
• to solve the real-world problems associated with
  building a livable city of the future.
• Hundreds of North Texas students have been
  working hard since October on their
• city concepts and will be bringing them to UTA,
  Nedderman Hall on Sat., Jan. 25.
• We need about 10 volunteers to help with
  coordination for the 7-8th grade students
• and the judges. Approx. time commitment - 6 hours
  
• (8am - 2 pm we'll provide danish in morning
  and lunch).
• Come and see what these talented kids have in
  mind for the future and help
• to inspire them into engineering school. Let Dr.
  Peterson know if youre interested.