1. Computational Thinking for Everyone

2. Instructor: Dr. Mao Zheng – 217 Wing Technology – campus email: mzheng@uwlax.edu – campus phone: 608.785.6808 – course web site: http://cs.uwlax.edu/~zheng/CT100Fall15/

3. How to think – like a computer scientist/software engineer – like a geek – like a computer nerd – like the graduate with a real job and great pay

6. Electrical Engineering (EE) – Focuses on hardware design of electrical devices – EE's design and make power supplies, electric motors, digital cameras, MRI's, etc… Computer Engineering (CE) – Focuses on digital electronics – CE's design and make electronic chips for a wide variety of computing systems Computer Science (CS) – Focuses on writing software to control the hardware Software Engineering (SE) – Focuses on managing the development of large software system Information Systems (IS) – Focuses on understanding how the needs of a company can be met by technology http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos304.htm

7. ___________________: – The physical parts of a computer ___________________: – A group of instructions that cause the computer to perform some specific task ___________________: – one or more computer program(s)

8. DateTopic Week 1Introduction, History of computing Week 2Data and Files Week 3Alice Programming & Logic Week 4Graphs and Diagrams Week 5Review and Exam 1 Week 6State diagrams, Activity Diagram Week 7Alice Programming and Data organization Week 8Spreadsheets as Data and Computation Week 9Problem Solving Week 10Spreadsheets Week 11Strings & Exam 2 Week 12Patterns and Pattern Matching Week 13Performance and Concurrency Week 14Security

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