the logical dilemma
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The Logical Dilemma. Keeping Students Enrolled in Logic. It’s important to get through Logic. Enrollment changes. The Three Structures. Sequence. Selection. Loop. Camtasia. StructureBrief\StructureBrief.html. The most common program. Pascal and me. The most common program. Analogies. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Analogies
Black boxMailboxes for memoryPolymorphismPlus sign(+)Addition, positive number, letter grade,
international phone number, names on tree
Puns and jokes
There are 10 types of people in this world – those who understand binary and those who don’t.
Help in the business world
Acronym3GL, 4GLALU, CPU, RAM, ROMTLA
Backronymsic: Said in context or Spelling is correcttip: To insure promptness
Help in the business world
IdiomsTime-and-a-halfBitter pill to swallowBite the bulletStep up to the plateBallpark estimate
Help in the business world
Don’t look stupidDon’t make anybody else look stupid
“Interger”Data isSQLchar
Quotes
Not my favorite.“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I
remember. Involve me and I learn.”– Benjamin Franklin
“First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.” – John Johnson
Sources for PowerPoint
Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds10/20/30 Guy Kawasaki
10 slides20 minutes30-point fontTake age of oldest person in audience and
divide by 2)
Cheating
Stanford StudyComputer science students make up 6.5
percent of studentsThey account for 23 percent of violations
of the university's honors code
Why do CIS students cheat?
Marketability of majorThe material is cumulativeUnlike other disciplines, it is not
possible to merely submit inferior work.Work is more often done near othersAssignments are reused because they
improve with time and debugging
Remember
Bad teachers think a college campus is a nice place to be when there are no students around.
Good teachers think a college campus is a nice place to be when there are no administrators around.
Administrators think a college campus is a nice place to be when no one is around.
Bibliography 2009 Drop in Business Majors http://www.heri.ucla.edu/index.php Why do computer science students cheat? http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_14351156?nclick_check=1 Attention Span graph from Hartley J and Davies I, “Note Taking: A Critical Review”, Programmed Learning and Educational
Technology, 1978, 15, 207-224. Administrator joke: http://www.tcnj.edu/~hofmann/lessons.htm MOSS: MOSS http://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/moss/ Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery by Garr Reynolds, New Riders Press, 2008. ISBN:
0321525655 Guy Kawasaki: www.guykawasaki.com Free photos stock.XCHANGE: http://www.sxc.hu/ 40 years and PowerPoint: ellenfinklestein.com