Lab 0: Syllabus and Questionnaire

CSC 261 - Artificial Intelligence - Weinman

Summary:

You will gather information about the structure of the course and give me a little information about you.

Background

Due:

10:30 PM Monday 22 January

Objectives:

 

• Learn about the structure of the course
• Provide some information about yourself

Collaboration:

Each student should turn in his/her/zir own version of the assignment. However, you may discuss Parts A-C with anyone you wish and you may obtain help from anyone you wish, but you should clearly document that help.

Submitting:

Please send your responses to the questions in two separate emails to [weinman]. Put your answers for Part B in an email with the subject,

CSC-261 About the course

and your answers for Part C in an email with the subject,

CSC-261 About me

Please send your work as text pasted into the body of the message. Do not send an attachment.

Assignment

Part A:

Read the course web site.

Part B:

Write up answers to the following questions about the course.

1. What does this class assume about your background?
2. What should you do to prepare for class?
3. What should you do to prepare for labs?
4. What mark should you expect for a reading journal entry?
5. How can you figure out what assignments you have due?
6. Briefly outline what you need to submit for a programming assignment.
7. What happens if you turn in an assignment late? reading journal?
8. When can you work with other students and when can you not work with other students (for this class)?
9. How can you obtain help from me? From your fellow students?
10. Include the sentence "I have read and understood the Academic Honesty policy for CSC-261." (If that statement is not currently true for you, you must ask questions until it is.)
11. What questions about the class do you have that aren't answered by the Web site?

Part C:

Write up answers to the following questions about yourself.

1. What name do you prefer to be called?
2. What are your pronouns (e.g., she/her/hers, ze/zir/zir, he/him/his)?
3. Who is your advisor? (If not CS, what is your major?)
4. Where are you from?
5. What other CS courses you have taken (at Grinnell or elsewhere) besides 151 and 161?
6. Which, if any, of the following mathematics courses have you taken?
   • MAT 115
   • MAT 123, MAT 124
   • MAT 131
   • MAT/CSC 208
   • MAT 215
   • MAT 218
   • MAT 209
   • MAT 335
7. What other courses are you taking this semester? (Please give course titles as well as numbers.)
8. Which of my regularly scheduled office hours (if any) are you able to attend? (That is, which do not conflict with a class or other regular obligation.)
9. What do you expect to learn or gain from this course?
10. What are your concerns for this course?
11. Tell me something about yourself that you'd like me to ask you more about later (e.g., your goals, a hobby, a book that made a big impression on you).
12. What questions do you have for me that have not already been answered?

Part D:

Do some other (pre-course) activities.

1. If you haven't already, sign up for Piazza.

Acknowledgment