Dr. John Marsaglia Spring Term, 2013

Professor in the Computer Science Division

 


Contact Information

 

  • S-Mail:

Division of Computer Science
Western Oregon University

345 North Monmouth Avenue
Monmouth, Oregon  97361

 

Schedule for:

Dr. Marsaglia

 

Winter 2013            

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

8:00

 

 

 

 

 

9:30

 

 

 

 

 

10:00

 

 

 

 

 

11:00

 

Office Hour

OnLine Office Hour

Office Hour

 

12:00

OnLine Office Hour

CS530-IS430

ITC 305

OnLine Office Hour

CS530-IS430

ITC 305

 

1:00

OnLine Office Hour

CS530-IS430

ITC 305

OnLine Office Hour

CS530-IS430

ITC 305

OnLine Office Hour

2:00

 

IS 409

 

IS 409

 

 

3:00

 

 

 

Office Hour

 

4:00

 

 

 

 

 

5:00

 

 

 

 

 

6:00

 

 

 

 

 

7:00

 

 

  

 

 

8:00

 

 

 

 

 

 

IS 409 Practicum

 

 

 

CS 340W-Online

CS 340W Syllabus

CS 340W Paper Definition

CS 340W Grade Sheet

 

 

 

 

 

Announcements:

Please try to do all email for the course using your WOU email.

Each student will write at least 8 papers over the term.

So the weekly plan for this course is that I will provide instructions on every Thursday and URL's on my main webpage (http://www.wou.edu/~jcm/)

and then you will produce for me a document (as described by)

CS 340W Paper Definition

Feel free to contact me thru my email jcm@wou.edu  for any additional information.

Week #1 April 4th to April 12th

This weeks topic is on Big Data:

Read Articles 4,5,20, 33 and then find five additional online references for this paper.

Your paper is due by 5:00 pm on Friday April 12th.

 

Week #2 April 11th to April 19th

Topic is Security

Read Articles 17,18,19,20,21 and find three additional external references. Write a General review of Computer/Technology Security.

Due April 19th by 5:00pm.

 

Week #3 April 18th to April 29th

The topic for this week(April 18th due on April 29th) will be focused on an individual that contributed to computing and its advancement:

Read five of the following articles 2,3,9,10,11,12,18 and cite which five you read, then do your own research (at least two external  citations). Write your paper on an individual that you think was a player in computing development and their contributions. Examples would be Turing, Hopper, Gates, Jobs, Knuth, Von Neumann,  Marsaglia, Ritchie/Thompson, Booch, Djikstra  etc… 

 

Week #4 April 25th to May 3rd

Read articles 16, 31, 34 from the text..

In this paper you will be making one of two arguments. The first is that game playing is a benefit to society. The second argument will be that game playing is not good for society. You may get assigned one of the arguments that you don’t completely favor but you still need to additional research and convince me that you have the evidence to support your argument. If your V number ends in 0, 2,4,6,8 then you defend why games are GOOD for society. If your V number ends in 1, 3,5,7,9 then you need to explain why games are BAD for society.

 Find 3 additional references to support your paper.

This paper will be due on May 3rd by 5 pm.

 

 

Week #5 May 2nd to May 10th

Read Articles 4,5,7,17,18,21.

This is an informational writing piece. Using the articles mentioned above and others, that you will cite (at  least 3)  create your best guidance plan about using the internet.

How to best protect yourself, your family, and your employer.

Paper is due May 10th  by 5 pm

 

Week #6   May 9th—May 17th   Peer-Review Week

 

Due May 17th by 5:00 pm.

 

Choose a paper that you have completed so far in this course and find someone to review it. They could be from this course, or a friend. If it is someone not in this class, you

 

need to show them the assignment description and the paper requirements. Turn their comments in with the improvements that they suggested. 

 

Assignment #7 Writing Center Review

Due Tuesday, May 28th by 5 pm.

Using your revised paper from Week #6 arrange for a review by the writing center staff.

You can make an appointment or I believe you can submit for an online review.

                                                               

 

 

IS 430 – CS 530

IS 430 Syllabus

CS 530 Syllabus

IS 430 Grade Sheet

CS 530 Grade Sheet

Assignments

#1 Go out and experiment with one of the following commercial storefronts..

Bigcommerce

http://www.bigcommerce.com/

or

Shopify.

http://www.shopify.com/

Send an email to your assigned graduate student (see spreadsheet below) by 5 pm Wednesday April 10th. Explain what you have done and what success you have had.

Grad-Undergrad Pairings

Meeting Schedule on Thursday April 11th in ITC305 and ITC306D

Assignment forIS430-CS530 May 2nd

Possible Commercial Sites

Amazon Presentation

Project Waterfall Management ppt

Project Agile Management

 

Schedule for the rest of the term

 

 

 

 

Blackboard collaborate

Moderator Link

https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/launch/dropin.jnlp?sid=vclass&password=6HD90U02UWY5TO5BUBJK

Participant Link

https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/launch/dropin.jnlp?sid=vclass&password=XUBR849ZIJ2OU6GPVDU2

Recording Link

https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/recording/playback/link/table/dropin?suid=D.F649C09928061975E8B4747375279C&sid=vclass

WOU Final Exam Schedule 

CS406 Worksheet

            Online Tutorials