The goal of this first-year seminar course is to understand the use of computing technology in our daily activities. In this course, we will study various examples on how computing affects different aspects of our daily life. More specifically, students will learn about use of computing technology in the following:
Students will learn how to use computational thinking to solve many different problems in the physical and virtual world. We will discuss various considerations and tradeoffs used in designing computational methodologies (e.g. time, storage, ease of implementation, and generality). This will include data structures, algorithms, computational methods and their complexity and implementation.
Here is a list of TENTATIVE lecture topics (subject to changes). Schedule and information on each topic (e.g. readings, web pointers) will be added during the semester before each class.
The class grade of each student is determined by
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