CS188: Science Gateway Seminar, Part 2
Spring 2014

Department of Computer Science
UMass Boston

Class: Tu, Th 11:00–11:50 in S-3-143 (Notice change of classroom!)
Course webpage: http://www.cs.umb.edu/~nurith/cs187

Instructor: Nurit Haspel
email: nurith@cs.umb.edu
Office: S-3-71
Office hours: Tu Th 2:30–4:00PM

Peer mentors:
Nicholas Rosato. email: rosatonj@gmail.com
Antony Reid. email: anthonyreid99@gmail.com
Location: Unix lab
Office hours: By appointment.

Course Description: This is the second course of a two-semester sequence, two credits each semester. Successful completion of the sequence will fulfil the students First-Year Seminar requirement. Course content during the first semester will focus on understanding various facets of Computer Science (CS) and how it relates to our lives. Students will be introduced to different concepts of CS, read articles where technology is an issue, and discuss important matters in written work and orally, both individually and in small groups. Students will become increasingly familiar with and experienced in scientific discourse, the scientific method and scientific communication.

This semester will be largely dedicated to the exchange program with Glasgow Caledonian University.

See the course syllabus for a detailed list of topics.

Fall semester's home page: CS187

Announcements

• Kickoff breakfast for CS/ENG on Thursday, Feb. 13, CC ballroom C.
• The Glasgow student exchance week will be during the break, week of March 17. The Scottish students will visit us on the following week, of the 24th.
• On Tue, Feb. 25, there will be a career services workshop with Amanda Stupakevich.
• The classes on Feb. 27 and Mar. 11 will be held in the Weblab (S-3-028) due to faculty candidate visits.

Assignments

• HW 1 due Tuesday Feb. 11 - Contact your respective teams from Engineering (emails and names were posted in the Google group)
• HW 2 due Thursday Feb. 20 - Send me a screenshot of your git directory, and add the name of your preferred IDE.

Class Notes

• Week 1:

  • Tue. , Jan. 28: Introduction to Spring semester, focusing on the GCU exchange program. Notes.

  • Thu. , Jan. 30: Some more details on the GCU exchange program. Notes. Demo rally

• Week 2:

  • Tue. , Feb. 4: Git tutorial (by Anthony and Nick)

  • Thu. , Feb. 6: Git tutorial (cont.)

• Week 3:

  • Tue. , Feb. 11: Talk by CJ from the FSC and CSM Dean Andrew Grosovsky.

  • Thu. , Feb. 13: Breakfast for CS and ENG at 9:00, CC Ballroom C.

• Week 4:

  • Tue. , Feb. 18: Setup the car project on git.

  • Thu. , Feb. 20: Continued work on car project.

• Week 5:

  • Tue. , Feb. 25: Career workshop.

  • Thu. , Feb. 27: Continued work on car project.

Resources

• CS department FAQ.
• Healey library research guide .
• Unix/Linux guides:Prof. Wilson's guide from CS110. A command-line crash course (suggested by Liam Pieri). A command line guide by Glenn Hoffman (CS dept.).
• Sharing tools: Google Drive, Dropbox.