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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
Analogies
Analogies
Analogies
Black boxMailboxes for memoryPolymorphismPlus sign(+)Addition, positive number, letter grade,
international phone number, names on tree
Puns and jokes
Puns and jokes
What is the object-oriented way of getting rich?
Inheritance.
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
MnemonicsAssemblerEvery good boy does fineRoy G BivHOMES
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
Programmer abbreviationsmmddyyssn
Help in the business world
IdiomsTime-and-a-halfBitter pill to swallowBite the bulletStep up to the plateBallpark estimate
You never finish a program;
You just stop working on it.
Help in the business world
Don’t look stupidDon’t make anybody else look stupid
“Interger”Data isSQLchar
Easter Eggs
Notepad.LOGF5
Word=rand(x,y)
IE7God mode:{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-
99712043E01C}
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
Debugging
Pseudocode with Logic bookTestProgram.cs
A quote I read
The biggest changes in college since I was a student:40 yearsPowerPoint
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)
Evil slide
Attention
Cheating
Water bottlesRubber bandsLegal cheat sheet?
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
MOSS
Measure of Software SimilarityA system for detecting software
plagiarismFree to educators
A Vision of Students Today
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o
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