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ASU 101: The ASU Experience

Catalog Description

ASU 101 (FSE/CSE) is a required, one-credit course offered in sections capped at 19 and designed to introduce students to Computer Systems Engineering and Computer Science as a profession, provide students with the necessary study skills to be successful in engineering and to familiarize students with the opportunities available to them in the engineering school.

Course Syllabus

This class will mainly be administered through class blog.

Lectures

Instructor: Aviral Shrivastava web, email.
Location: West Hall 267.
Time: 12:55 pm - 1:45 pm.

Class schedule

  1. Aug 25, 2010: Introductions and Blogging.
  2. Sept 01, 2010: Why is ASU an NAU, and what is an algorithm?
  3. Sept 08, 2010: Student resources, and how to find maximum of a given list of numbers.
  4. Sept 15, 2010: How to search for a number in a given list of numbers.
  5. Sept 22, 2010: Curriculum navigation and progress monitoring tools at ASU, and the IsSorted routine.
  6. Sept 29, 2010: Discussed subset sum problem, and Intel buying Mcafee
  7. Oct 06, 2010: Discussed computer architecture trends, and why multi-cores? What do multi-cores mean?
  8. Oct 13, 2010: Discussed Academic Integrity and implications of malpractice
  9. Oct 20, 2010: Guest Lecture by Mandy Aroz on time management, cheating, plagiarism, and academic integrity
  10. Oct 27, 2010: Pizza party and some research projects in CML lab

Last Updated: Aviral Shrivastava, 09/10