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Good morning.
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Good morning.
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how's everyone doing today.
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i'm doing pretty good.
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snow again. So this. The streets around my house have frozen into various shapes of. problem, causing shapes very slushy and then. got very deep breaths and high ridges so. Lots of fun. Quote Unquote. I should. bring up our I found that clip from letterman. So one more meeting before their winter break. or next Tuesday meeting will be in March already. So here's the club for. Men okay. So. True watch that together.
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i'm always down for watching a video in class.
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So anyway. So let's do our attendance first and then we'll talk about assignments and. and start from there. Okay.
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Well, you can have on your account.
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Okay, so there's our attendance password for today. Okay. let's. Okay, here we go. Maybe as a rear Admiral and was until that time the nation's oldest active military officer, she is also a pioneer in the computer field as well as a brilliant and charming woman, please welcome Admiral grace hopper.
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Thank you very much for being here have you have you ever given here, thank you have you ever seen this program.i'm prejudiced too late for me, I have to get up at five could be in office seven you get up at five to go to work and seven.Well it's a long ways from arlington Virginia cross the river and down through Washington, we used to have a boat went from the Pentagon Dan Dan navy yard, but it's a card, I took it away oh President.commandeered for private parties or what.was using too much energy Oh, I see it was a conservation making so, then you you're working a full day now for a private firm right yes.And corporation digitally I get that in there, good okay.And how long ago, did you did you leave active service there anyone August 21 2400 now see that it says 2400 artists to 2400 is a night midnight yeah was there a wild celebration at midnight, when this took place yeah.So, so you went to bed in the service and you woke up out of the service was something you learned in your first boot camp or training camp if they put you down somewhere with nothing to do go to sleep.I think that made the office policy for us upstairs do.not know grace you mentioned boot camp now when did you go through navy back in 4444 and what what kind of college, was it tough physically demanding.mentally demanding all those youngsters that came in with me and they could still memorize things and i'd forgotten how I see, so you.Can memorize the ordinary can derive the organization and the navy, I have to memorize so you were older than most of the other enlistees barely got in I was 3737 know what interested you about going into the navy at 37 to begin with.yeah there was a time when everybody in this country all did one thing and talk together and and you just wanted to get over there and fight Nazis.Well, the other thing I had to go navy, because my great grandfather was every reading.And if I hadn't gone in the navy probably would risen from my his grave and haunted me yeah so it's a tradition in your family yeah and then and but before that you also.college Professor yeah and you worked on the original computer in this country right now i'm very fortunate the navy or admin to the first big computer and United States mark one and Harvard.it's called mark one at Harvard in those days, the thing was 21 feet long a tree in a 3D and that was the pocket model.You can put it on a little tiny corner of a chip now now what how did you know so much about computers, then I didn't how did you first one yeah.had to learn a lot of things one day commander he came around to my desk and says you're going to write a book I said I can't write a book he said you're in the navy now.So I wrote a book, you had to write a book and that was outlining the entire manual of the computer yeah yeah and I process yeah Now I know nothing about computers and you know everything about computers your.they've called you everything all I can't yeah, but it is there, anybody who would know more Oh, I spent 70 good youngsters coming along no more, but you're known as the Queen of software is that right.You know that little bit about that that conjures an image of somebody who has a lot of tupperware parties so.I could give you a nanosecond OK, I see I don't even know what that is great well, you see, we started with milliseconds thousands of a second.And then we went to microseconds millions of a second, and now we talk about nanoseconds that's a billionth of a second but.Only told me billionth of a second and I didn't know what on earth, they were talking about didn't make sense to me so one day I called over to engineering said cut off a nanosecond send it over to me.And you can pick your color they come in color see I didn't realize that nanoseconds in the old days you only had your choice of white or Gray, I think.Know gracie I understand that this is a visual, that is, the maximum distance it lighter electricity can travel and a billionth of a second.No, no faster, no, no, no farther when an Admiral as you why it takes a damn long to send a message by satellite, you point out to him between here and the satellite there are very large number of nano.we'll be right back well we'll continue talking about.Welcome back to the show this is a real grace hopper is it rear Admiral or just Admiral were add my lower hat what.What is what does that term denote rear Admiral or have same as a Brigadier general but there's the rear apply to a is it a nautical term while his rear Admiral vice Admiral and finally it.So it's just where his position he or she is positioned on the chart and have there been any other female rear Admiral tomorrow, once the.head of great legs, training and the other is the head of the nurse going, but you were the first, no, no we're not doing right now.For five or six ahead of me how many years, did you have in the navy 43 and a half and and can I ask you how old you are now i'll be eating December in December, I think.let's let's take a look at this photograph tell me what this occasion was this one, I was promoted to Commodore and which later was renamed rear Admiral I see and President Reagan better all by himself.I tiptoed up to him and got up on my toes and said, Sir, may I may I tell you something, and he looked at me funny as all get out as if I was going to threaten massive i'm older than you or.laugh, you could have heard all the way across.i'm guessing you didn't mind at all, you probably have not heard that much as you.Know i'm.Taking another second here and try to explain to me why a nanosecond means anything, and the main reason that means something is is because everybody wants to answer it better answers faster.And you get him out of the computers, he got to make the computers faster, but this is as fast as those those in fact as fast as they'll go now of course.they've been talking about nanoseconds for several years, but now they're talking about panko seconds and I packer second is a thousandth of a nanosecond.Imagine talk cutting that is 1000 of a billion of a second yeah it's a quiet group didn't have a second yeah the best way to get out of wendy's mcdonald's or somewhere and get a small packet a pack of seconds, they have the label pepper on them, but they're.Really.nicely and that's it that's a good illustration, and have you had any any difficulties, making the transition from the all those years as a military person to civilian life.They should have a course and how to in civilian dressing here i've been wearing nice round toad flat heeled shoes and all of a sudden, they want to put me on spike yields and Apollo all.Around toes and there's nothing but moccasins yeah and then I tried to get some panty hose.And the first pair bag did the cab and the second pair cut man have.Both, how do you get a pair of pantyhose to fit well I can.tell you a little later.So navy issue pantyhose we're better than civilian pantyhose i've got a.shock sounds.Great awesome i'm glad that you had some time to come up here from Washington, and it was a pleasure to see you, congratulations on everything, last year we have time for a quick question is your ancestry well Scottish or Irish.You know i'm not certain, I think it's your hair nice I guess Welsh all right i'm not gonna argue with you.make a joke when I don't know I said serious serious questions very important okay well, what does that mean exactly well depends on which kind of Center your head well that's a lousy here lately.Very well, good, thank you very much thank you.
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So. Anyone know who David letterman is. That was close to the start of his for show on first late night show on NBC. Because I can leave it like that. i'm glad to hear that. Or to read that. So I believe the nanosecond demonstration she did when she was here in 1974 for. There is a lecture series called the master field. That you're serious when the Faculty of science. And so, she she's that that illustration, then. I thought the package of Pico seconds was interesting as well. anyway. So that's that's who grace hopper is. All right, that's right i've seen. i've seen a little bit of that new David letterman series. looks a little bit different now it's going to big beard. anyway. So project is due. On Friday, just before midnight.
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You mean the project proposal right, not the actual.
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that's right. Okay, thank you. I was thinking about your comment about 2400. And I thought that was interesting. Because it's a little bit ambiguous because 2400 is the same as zero. And I suppose, they don't use 010 hundred hours. But being a computer scientist you think that that would be. A preference. started zero because that's the first.
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For us, our belief, they do us a $700.
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Okay. I was just wondering, because the so. Zero hundred hours riemann would be started the next day and 2400 through the end of the current day. So It just seems like. To have two names for the same time. would be. That might cause some problems at some point but. But all. We can do, but a check on that. So once I will I don't have the name of this person who did it we said it, but we're talking his comment about whether we should start indexing raise it zero or one. This is from a computer science educator. You made this comment, he said, you know people don't agree. about starting at zero or one, so I propose, starting at point five. Not this person did not see if I can find that clock. So anyone have a. An answer to there is for the reason why we start counting at zero.
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Because zero is technically all for no power, whatever and then one is the next, which is on or power.
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yeah so if we think of. bits. That we set them all off, then, then the number we get a zero. So we can. So when we say. Well, so a bit is either on or off offer on. And depending on every bits we get. To to the number of bits we can represent that many values, so if we have two beds, we can get four values. We can't get four values if we don't start at zero because the four values are 0123. So that just. seems reasonable seems eminently reasonable to start at zero because then otherwise we're wasting that. That slot. Okay. Anyway, little detour there but. So, yes pardon me project proposals due on Friday at. At the end of the day. Any questions or concerns about that. So notice, some people. The people who want to work by themselves are perfectly fine doing that. If you wanted to work with a group, please try and. communicate your group. Members members, the members of your group. To. Well, probably the easiest ways to just reply to that post that have in the discussion area. Some quite a few groups have done that already, but if you're. If you're planning to. The project with somebody else or some other people. Please let us know. We have that. discussion forum posts, so we can get things set up just make things smoother. And now we can. submit. Can we agree with the setup. And allow you to submit. smoothly, instead of having the group get set up after you submit that makes sense. So, again you're perfectly fine. If you're working by yourself. You don't need to worry about anything you don't have to submit anything or. communicate anything else. But if you're working with one or more people. Then please. Please communicate that before submitting now just make things go more smoothly in the submission process. Okay. yeah. mentions, because the raising pointers. raise our pointers and indexes and offset from a pointer yeah so. that's another way to explain it. Okay. Alright, so. I put up. Let me see here go back. You. Okay, so the next question is about the due date for the blog entry. So right now that's set to be. due at the end of the prank. Which doesn't seem very nice actually does. So how about any thoughts about switching it to Friday. let's see march forth. And then any objection to that.
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Sir, are you talking about the bug and truth.
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Yes.
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This one. Okay, so. Let me change that right now. Oh no sorry that's ellison. This month, the first day back from the break not not the end of the break. It still. yeah I think that looks right.
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So I know it says, the proposal is supposed to be one to two pages, how long is the project supposed to be.
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um. well. If you're writing something. I think I have in mind, maybe 1500 words. But I would because you might not. I didn't wanna. I didn't want to. Put a hard and fast rule on it, because. If you're doing some other kind of deliverable then it's much harder to assess. And if you write a Wikipedia page. it's not just about the length of the. Of the article but there's not lots of other things. That go into it.
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Is there any example, proposals that we could look at just as a reference.
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Okay, oh. i'll give you some things oh find some examples and put them up today or tomorrow. Okay. sounds great.
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Thank you, Professor no. you're welcome.
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Okay, so. What I want to also mention was about the. So I about the blog entry i've indicated there's four marks for, let me just go to the assignment here. critical evaluation of online sources. And I haven't filled in the details there yet so. i'd like to get your thoughts on. what's a good way what are some good ways what's the process we should outline. and describe for. The purposes of getting the four marks for the critical evaluation of online sources. So. Life, this is my thoughts so. Who. To reach of your sources, you could. answer a number of questions about them. And then the other piece would be. To. get a similarity report from turn it in and then have you comment. On the results on the matches that are indicated in the tournament similarity report. So that would mean. Submitting in two parts, I guess, so you'd submit. These submit. Your blog entry. and get a similarity report and then you comment on the similarity report.
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What if I then. make a slight change in my project and handed it again and the similarity report is totally different.
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well. Okay, so this is for the blog entry. right there we're talking about. So i'm not sure if they would change completely if you made small changes can make small changes, then. i'd expect the similarity report to have small changes in. But I could be wrong. So i'm suggesting this is a. process to. To help us think critically about the the online sources of information that we have. So I don't. I don't. Imagine that it will be perfect, but. What i'm thinking about for the. comment on the similarity report is that. You acknowledge. The things that are coming up as matches and. have a chance to explain them and. Think about them. So I know that's the turn it in isn't perfect either, far from it. Because it could match it could create matches. To to materials that. To I guess to other versions of the material that you're discussing in your project or in your in your writing pardon me. But I would. It would match other versions of the same material and not go to the. The source and match the sources necessarily. So who talked about. Something on an acm website. which stands for, for one again what's ECM stand for.
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Association for computing machinery.
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yeah Association for computing machinery that's right.
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Personally, I would be far more interested in the actual critical evaluation of online sources part of it, and a lot less interested in the plagiarism aspect of it just because I know turn it in has extensive history of flagging weird things like my name the date. The fact that I had a period at the end of my sentence.
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yeah well sometimes.
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yeah.
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So. My experience that i'm referring to is that. They might have they might indicate as a source a website that has quoted the original source. mean so they don't have the primary source. they're not matching to the primary source of that. doesn't mean that you haven't. worked with the primary source. So i'm not trying to think of it as plagiarism. i'm. i'm not looking at this is defending yourself against plagiarism. I would rather think about it as here's an understanding of. This service to acknowledge and. I guess it's thinking critically about plagiarism checkers to our sponsor thinking critically about the results of turning in gifts so sometimes. They come up with some. You know if if it comes up with a. website that's designed for. Providing. Answers to questions answers to exam questions. Because of all the match there. i'd be more interested to hear. your explanation about. All that kind of match.
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I just have a question in the project, although we have to include our Francis as well, or just like the introduction and the conclusion and the main points.
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So let me look what I wrote here. So no you don't have to have. So this is i'm breaking down the Marks and so you don't need to have. References identified. See.
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Can though right.
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yeah so you might have them there to you might indicator. source that. They make the shows that. The topic that you're choosing actively engages in a important issue related to class. Right, I mean there are different places where you might include that but. He won't be docked marks just turn not having references or your. it's not a marketing criterion. To have references and have references included in the proposal okay. That answer your question our CEO.
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Yes, thank you.
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you're welcome. Any more thoughts about that.
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Sir, I had a small question about the project deliverable like say, for example, if a team chooses to like do a podcast do you think they should like stick to a like you know, a duration like say, for example, half an hour or one hour like do set any specific duration.
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So off off. I wouldn't say that I wouldn't say that your podcast would need to be an hour or. i'm not sure what the. Common length of the podcast is but. If it gets if it gets to be an hour long, I would suggest that maybe it could benefit from some editing. But if it's five minutes long, then it could benefit from. Some more material. So off hand and I can say it has to be a certain length.
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So, so does half an hour sound better, like, for example. well.
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i'd say. yeah that might be a more reasonable target. If it's longer that's not necessarily a bad thing. So when you get closer to. completing the project, we can have more discussions about that. don't seem all right.
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Yes, Sir truly does Thank you.
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Okay.
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Alright, so. Thinking about the critical assessment of online sources.
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How about for questions and one of the questions is something to the tune of. Is the source of primary source and what your rationale for choosing, it would be based on that idea. That would that would still address your turn it in concept, it would just you know, not necessarily have to deal with turn it in. yeah.
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Okay. So oh invite. Discussion online and i'll put something up for next for our next meeting. We can evaluate or we can consider okay. Alright, so that those seem like good ideas. Okay, and then the third thing I want to mention on assignments, is that I have. I have the details, through the assess you mean this website so that's maybe not the best. The best name for an assignment but anyway. So i've set up groups. And the groups are somewhat random. Because they're based on the class work groups so. The idea is. To test some of the test the content on the cms web page, so I listed the links. So it seemed like a good. So this is the new computer science department web pages. which were converted in less than two years ago. That they're now part of. The new university Regina web pages. That have been are. So portion of them went live at the end of last year. So we talked about. And interfaces she made an effort is responsible, the human needs to consider human frailties. So. So did so, based on that quote from Jeff or ask and. To look at the web pages and. See. See how they they do in response to. See if they're helpful and. responsive to human needs. Consider human frailties so Does that mean so presents information away that. that's accessible for people. And doesn't. Do doesn't present things in a way that are difficult for people to process. So there's a couple articles there about testing website content. And some questions to ask and. I would enjoy I would appreciate your feedback about. Your impressions of the Department of computer science website web pages. Okay, so there are 12 classroom groups and i've made 24 of these web groups. So I randomly divided your classroom group into two. And that's that. So if there are questions that come up about that assignment. So that's still 50 days 48 days away, I think. yeah. so far. we're almost. Almost seven weeks away yeah. So. The integrations there for your. I think i've gotten details what all the other assignments as well.
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Sir, for this assignment do we have to stick to the group that has been assigned, or we can make our other groups.
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Are kind of individually.
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um no i'd rather you work with the group. work was a half of your classroom group to achievement assigned. Okay.
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And sort of like do we choose the half of the group, or like is it.
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i've chosen them for i've made the group's already so. Okay. So in in the area under assignments here just. guess I can't do that. So under the group website assessment there's a thing web was in group discussion forum. So that's a place to communicate with your groups or to start communication with your groups. I can put up a list. Like I did for the classroom groups, if you like. and It says interview some questions aren't. As appropriate for for each page as some others so. See you may end up with. So i'd say. No, you don't need to answer every question for every every particular page each particular page. So it's and so there's material on each. Each of those main navigation links has X extra material on it there's. there's some links to come that follow from that page on the left hand side, the left hand navigation menu or. The main navigation links are the ones that are along the top primarily. The page but there's additional material on the left. And there might be some other links on the page. So those are more like sections section headings. I think there are eight of them. identified there so. You can think about what happened. And thinking about what happens. In the Group related to about, for example. Under the heading of about, then you get this information, and this these pages. are good, because this or not so good, because of that. And so on so. So it's just not the pages that are linked, but let the things that follow up from them as well it's, not just those main links that i've given you. But the material they contain as well.
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Kenny, please go over the critique of blog entries will like do we have to put a any blog that we see, or is there a specific one that we have to put it.
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So I said. So i'd like you to critique through blog and you immediately phones your own blog entry, so if you're posting them in the class blog. than the one that follows years as the one of the issues. Right, the critique of okay. make sense.
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yeah like if i'm writing about privacy, I have to put up another blog entry, that is talking about privacy as well.
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No it's just. The one that occurs next in the. In the class blog where everybody's entries are posted. or most everyone's entries are posted.
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Okay, thank you.
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Okay.
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you're welcome.
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So sorry the critique itself has to be a PDF of one to two pages.
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Yes.
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I mean like we have to study the other person's. blog entry and then write a paper on it.
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So i'm trying to. So I would say. Oh well, it's looking at somebody else's work and. making an assessment of of how well. blog entry fits the criteria laid out in the rubric for the blog entry. So you're giving feedback about. How well the other person. completed the assignment in a way okay. there's my answer, so that you don't have any more questions.
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For the proposal are you more looking for bullet points or paragraphs, because I could actually hand you like a rough draft.
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So paragraphs are not a bad thing. So i'm just looking for a document that deals with a criteria of as the headings that i've indicated. So bullet points I think we're okay. The paragraphs are nice too. So I just i'd say. organize it according to those headings i've indicated. That would be. That would be the main piece of advice okay. and Writing and with bullet points is fine. Just make sure that. What you written as well as. you're writing complete thoughts and. known and shorthand don't don't take shortcuts with your writing okay. So that reminds me I was looking at. A Google result and I don't remember exactly what I. searched for but I noticed that the capitalist of popular questions. And I thought. This isn't. This is not very well written. And then it's a when I looked at the link that answered the question. The link that was referenced as an answer to the question the popular question. It was written properly so Google. And I think in an effort to. reduce the number of characters in the question, so that have. been around a certain. Maybe maybe that would fit better on a screen or. And it's a metric that. The shortened version scored better with i'm not sure exactly. What the result was. Poorly written. So I don't want you to. write bullet points poorly. And you can read bullet points well or you can write paragraphs that make sense.
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yeah Thank you.
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anyone else notice that have a Google results, sometimes I think.
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Oh yeah I got Google homes in my house and they do it all the time.
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So it's interesting. If. If writing. Writing poorly is in the public interest or not or serve as a public good.
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In the rubric for the proposal you say the deliverable is imaginative. To what extent can research paper be viewed as imaginative, given that it's very traditional.
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Okay well. I say, then the your take on the topic is it. Is. Is fresh is. Innovative. More so than. So I didn't know that my first answer help matters at all.
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yeah that makes sense.
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Okay. So when I say imaginative I don't mean use your imagination. To. To do something that's not based and. In fact. That it's it's about taking a. And then. Taking a perspective that. may be less exam and then. Anyway, I guess, I don't have more to say about that. Okay. Well, I didn't think we'd have a full session of questions and answers, so I hope. i've answered your questions. Well, and if not, we can continue. These discussions in my office are or. In the discussion forum in your courses okay. So, thank you very much for today take care we'll see you, on Thursday, if not before.
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When is your office hour again.
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10 to 12 and 230 to 330 on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
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Profit will be available at your office are two days.
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Yes. So there's a waiting room So if you enter the waiting room and. i'll try and acknowledge you if, if there are people ahead of you. But the way that I do this is to go through, and admit the first person in line. And then work through so. i'll try and set if I see you there waiting for oil transcend investors to say that. i'm working through the list. So I haven't forgotten about you okay. let's see all right. Okay, since we're now three minutes late three minutes overtime. Questions about. Anything send me a note. or come to my office hour. Okay, thanks again. Take care.
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attendance code ?
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x56l1r
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I like her.
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she has a great sense of humor.
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I loved it tbh
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I like the wire demo that's awesome
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never thought about it like that before
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whats the meeting password?
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anyone enjoy that?
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It was pretty good.
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David Letterman has a series on netflix called My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman
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It’s was really nice
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I loved it..
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Could anybody please send the discord link?
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cause arrays are pointers and index is offset from that pointer
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Attendance?
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4th march works for me
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Thanks and works for me
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March 4th sounds great
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That would be nice
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No objection from me.
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We could do Monday the 7th as well.
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No objection
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That sounds good
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That works fine
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no prof
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Im sorry, what is the similarity report again?
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I think that answering questions to show that we checked our sources is better
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Can we make changes to the project after seeing the similarity report?
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similarity report
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whom did you think I was xddd
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How do we know who is in our group?
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Do we need to answer each question for particular pages you mentioned?
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if you click the message icon in the top right corner of the URCourses page, you will see the a group chat named 'Web ..' is made in the group section and then you can check out the participants.
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I will add a list of groups
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The most important thing that I encountered:
- To learn about Grace Hopper.
- Today first we discussed about our project proposal and we watched a video in which a old lady was interviewed and she was great in computers. Then we duscussed about blog entry and about our groups
- I had the pleasure of learning about Grace Brewster Murray Hopper today, and a bit of the impact she had on our world as we know it.
- In today's lecture we watch the Grace Hopper in David Letterman Show. She joined the Navy and later she became Rear Admiral. She was also known as "Queen Of Programming" and she contributed in programming in Harvard Mark I computers.
- Detail of assignment.
- Grace Hopper is the queen of programming
- In today's lecture the prof shows us a video in which a lady was astonished by the nano seconds and pico seconds also prof asked about the groups. Overall the lecture was very great.
- Today I learned more about the project so that I can properly plan my project proposal. We discussed how it is supposed to be 1500 words ish but that this isn't a hard number. Other than that we discussed general expectations for it.
- the details for the project proposal and the blog post
- Today we watched an interview video of “Queen of Software” Grace Hopper with David Letterman. It was a great 10 min video clip especially Dr.Hopper explained about Nanoseconds and Picoseconds.
- First index in arrays start at 0 because a bit is either on or off. If we don't start the index at 0, then we can't get values. We would be wasting a state.
- Today I learnt that I should start working on my proposal as soon as possible and get started on my project!
- Today we discussed about the project proposal in our class, I first thought that we can use any kind of books for this project, but after the discussion, I realized that we need to choose the book that relates to our class.
- Today I learned who Grace Hopper was and her many accomplishments in the Navy and working on the Harvard Mark I. She was a very important person in American history by revolutionizing the computer.
- The amazing interview of 90's American computer scientist Grace Hopper taught me a lot about the initial approach of Computer. Grace was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, she was a pioneer of computer programming who invented one of the first linkers. I admire how she stayed so poised and down to earth while describing the concepts of nanoseconds to the interviewer.
- Today we watched Grace Hopper's interview on David Letterman's show. She is a U.S. Navy computer pioneer who is known as the queen of programming. I've done some research and according to Britannica, she helped device UNIVAC I, the first successful computer. Furthermore, the deadline for the Blog Entry has been moved to March 4. The professor also talked about the newly uploaded homework which will be due on April 4. The rest of the class time is dedicated to answer student's questions.
- Participation of women in computer science
- In today's class, the professor explained more about the blog entry and its marking criteria. We were also assigned a group assignment that is based on assessing the website of the computer science department in the U of R website. We also saw an interesting video of Grace Hopper attending the show of David Letterman. There were some very interesting examples and opinions given by Grace in that video.
- I found the Grace Hopper video to be very interesting. She seems like such an interesting and funny person yet also just a tad strange. I also found the discussion regarding the project proposal to be very helpful due to the due date being this coming Friday!
- Today, we had a discussion about our first task. How to start the task. And I knew what to do with the last task.
- In today's meeting we watch a video about Grace Hopper. She was one of the programmer of the Harvard Mark 1 Computer. It was interesting how the hour format starts at 24:00 instead of 0:00 for start of the day. Out of topic, but the discussion about why the index of array starts at 0 makes me more wonder why ot is the way it is.
- I find the reason why the first index of an array starts with 0 is interesting.
- I didn't know that the reason array indexes started at 0 because of the states of bits and that if you didn't start at 0, you would be wasting an array state.
- The most important thing I learned today was the first index of arrays start at 0 because bits are either on or off.
- Today's lecture was mainly focused on discussing about the different assignments that we need to submit in this course. I found Grace Hopper's YouTube clip quite interesting and her journey and experience as one of the first computer scientists to work on the Mark I computer is remarkable. Because of people like Grace Hopper, there has been a tremendous amount of growth in the computing world.
- The thing I learned about today is about Ms. Grace Hopper in her interview with David Letterman .And how she became a rear admiral. Date for Blog entry was extended. And due date for project proposal was told.
- Today we discussed about the David letterman show where Grace Hopper appeared, she joined navy when she was 37 years old and later became a rear admiral. She was assigned to program the Mark I computer. She was also known as queen of programming. She created the first computer language compiler, which led to the popular COBOL language.
- types of ways to write a project proposal
- Today, we have seen some video on interview which was very good and interesting. We also have discussed all the assignment. I would like get more information on group website assignment.
- Good discussions. The video was fun and interesting session.
- I would like to know more about Grace Hopper as she did a revolution in field of computer science
- The most important thing i learned today is the book written by the grace hopper ''The queen of programming'' and also came to know that she was one of the programmers for harvard mark 1 computer. She also joined navy when she was 37 years old. Then the discussion was occured on the blog entry like how we are gonna submit and what topics should be included and how we can evaluate the online sources. also prof discussed if student chooses research paper then 1500 words maximum and groups assigned for website
- Today, we saw one video of Grace Hopper which is shown by our professor and I have found quite interesting video.
- We enjoyed an interview with Grace Hopper today and I was captivated by her humorous and entertaining performance. She was one of the first computer scientists in the world, and we can see in her the research and exploration of computers by early programmers. She believed in the rapid development of computers, and at the same time, she wanted people to use computers to do things better. She developed COBOL, the first commercial high-level language in human history, and she was also the founder of bug.
- the most important thing learnt is the details about the project proposal.
- We watched the video Grace Hopper's Interview on David Letterman and discussed the conversation happening between them briefly. Then Mr. Hepting gave instructions about upcoming assignments and projects. Also thankful to him for giving one day extension for project proposal's due date.
- the most important thing that I learned about is Grace hopper , I don't know who was she I get to know lot of things about her admiral achievements and She was one of the programmer in Mark-1 computer
- Grace Hopper was the inventor of one of the very first linkers, which is incredibly cool!
- The most important thing i learnt in today's lecture was about Grace Hopper and how he gave importance to 00
- In todays class, we discussed about the blog groups. We also discussed about assignment
- How to visually represent the size of a nano-second. The video we watched was very informative and I found it really interesting that you could visually represent a nanosecond. It was done by a short stick the represented how the distance light would travel in 1 nanosecond. Very cool!
- the most important thing that I learned was about Grace Hopper which she was an American computer scientist and rear admiral in the United States Navy. She was a pioneer of computer programming and invented one of the earliest linkers. She was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer. She was the first to develop the principle of machine-independent programming languages, and her FLOW-MATIC programming language was eventually developed to produce COBOL, an early high-level programming lan
- The Grace Hopper video was an interesting watch
- The amount of information in today's society is so great that the transmission of information is no longer as slow as it was in the past due to the development of the Internet. Not only because of the ease of information transfer in today's society but also because of the fact that there are more people generating information in today's society. People are no longer faced with a lack of information, but the selection of information. It needs to be received more efficiently. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Tr
The most difficult thing for me to understand:
- I did not quite understand the purpose of the new assignment and why it has to be done as a group since we are just critquing the improved website
The thing about which I would most like to know more:
- The continued progress in the speed of computers and how that has impacted society.
- The thing that I would most like to know more about is the guest from the David Letterman video, Grace Hopper. She seems to have lived a very interesting life. I would like to know in more details of what it was like to work on/with the first computers and how computers evolved over the years especially in a military environment.
- About how google shows its results
- how fast can computers do calculations now a day compared to when they where first coming out
- Grace hopper mentioned about her programming days when she mentioned about her the hour format the computer they programmed.
- I would like to learn more about women in tech and women in power positions because I am a women who recently started this journey in computer science and its inspiring to see women work their way up and do whatever they want without limitations.
- In today’s class, the professor made us watch Grace Hopper’s interview on the Letterman show. Grace Hopper, known as the ‘Mother of Computing’, has an interesting theory for nanosecond wires. She used wires to illustrate how in one nanosecond an electric signal can travel 11.8 inches. It is a visual aid that represents how fast electricity can travel in one billionth of a second which is a nanosecond.
- I would like to know more about what is expected of us on the project, and to see examples of previous project submissions to have a better idea of topics/submissions that are acceptable
- about the website review assignment, I am very confused about what we have to do exactly
- Hearing about the nanosecond and picosecond was really interesting. I would like to know more about what advancements have been made since the picosecond and how fast information can travel now.
- Today, we went over the assignment deliverables, and what I wanted to learn more about was how would we prepare for the final in this class? Will we be asked a question about computing technology and its impact on the world? or do we have a somewhat review package of certain terms we need to know and such.
- the thing from todays lecture that I would most like to know more about would have to be some of the big names in the history of this field. I think its fascinating to see their stories and how they changed the IT industry.
- I learnt a little more about Grace Hopper's contributions to computer science. It would be nice to learn about other notable figures in the world of computing, especially women. I hear very little about them, even though there are other women who have contributed. For instance: Lady Ada Lovelace. Maybe talking about these historical figures makes only a very small impact. I don't know. But it's still important to give people a source of inspiration.
- The upcoming research project proposal
- Google.
- I would like to know more about grace hopper and take a deeper look about why she was so well known as a programmer and how she learned about computers
- Today's topic was quite interesting i got to know about Grace Hopper also got to know like he was one of the programmers for Haward Mark1 computer and his book namely Queen Programming.Would like to know about him more!!
- We talked about how it was interesting how Grace Hopper mentioned computer hours format starting from 24:00 instead of 0:00 for the start of the new day .
- I would definitely love to know more about Grace hooper as she changed different format for hour formats . I always get fascinated about this kind of folks who revolutionized the systems we use today.
- In todays class we saw the interview of Grace Hopper on the David Letterman show. It was a really nice interview in which Letterman discussed about the difficulties she faced in navy. She explained her journey and also told some facts of the computer and why she is called 'Queen of Software'. We further discussed about the project submission and also discussed about the Group website Assessment. I would like to know more about the assessment.
- Harvard Mark I computer. We watched a video of Grace Hopper on the David Letterman show. And the one thing I would like to know most about is the Harvard Mark 1 computer that Grace Hooper had to write a manual for.
- Computers only understand binary language, the language of one's and zero's. Nowadays, we mostly write our code in higher level languages, and then the compilers do the translation job for us. I would like to know about the translation process from high level languages to binary language. How the compilers are made, and how they work?
- Programming is for everyone. I literally mean it. In a computing society, knowing a programming language can be a great advantage, you can work in the tech field or not. Programming help people develop logical thinking. Different age groups can learn how to write code.
- In the time of pandemic how are supposed to keep ourselves motivated to to study?
- How does dr happening manage to walk around the ice outside his house?
- How did risks/rewards influence choices early computer scientists made when developing the first architecture and programs?
- I would like to know more about how these projects we are completing for our class all connect to an understanding of Risk and Reward in an information society.
- the history about the why people use 1 and 0 instead of other things
- may i know more about the how the risk of security and personal information leak
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