Course ConclusionsWe're all fluent now, right?

Fluency with Information Technology

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INFO100 and CSE100

Katherine Deibel

Fluency with IT?

FIT100 teaches you to be Fluent with IT

What does that mean for you? Using IT freely and easily Making technology your friend Recovering from bugs, errors, or

unexpected situations Being in control and confident… now

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Goals of FIT100

Make you better users today Prepare you to learn more IT as you

need it throughout your life Make you a better reasoner, problem

solver, trouble-shooter, etc.

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The Topic List ...

Digital representation—using bits

Computer basics and Silicon technology

Algorithms—sorting with CDs

Programming ideas—Mad Libs

Building a GUI in HTML/JavaScript

Functions—biggest idea in software

Iteration—looping over & over & over &

Forms and JavaScript

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The Topic List ...

Digital Media—colorizing, binary, MP3,

Database basics, operations on tables

Logical Databases—views and queries

DB design chalk talk—Student Athletes

Netiquette, viruses, worms, email

Privacy —opt-in/opt-out, you decide

Encryption—hiding secrets from everyone

Algorithms, efficiency, limits of computing

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What we did not cover

Accessibility and technology Digital divide E-waste Productivity and technology Computer graphics and animation Educational technologies So much more in spreadsheets More computer history

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The Challenge—Your Diversity

Being fluent in information technology means different things for each of you Depends on your major

Depends on your career goals

Depends on your interests

There are 149 of you (≈120 in lecture ) 149 different interests and goals

Hopefully you had chances to learn from each other (while respecting academic conduct)

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What we aimed for instead

FIT100 aimed to help you to become Fluent by learning Skills

Concepts

Capabilities

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Skills

Skills are the ability to use computers today to solve your problems You have learned new applications … FTP,

GIMP, Spreadheets, Access, …

Even better, you learned how to learn applications: “Click Around,” “Blaze Away”

Be an aggressive, confident user

Could you learn your next application on your own?

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Concepts

Concepts are foundation for future learning How the Internet’s TCP/IP works (postcards)

how a computer works (F/E cycle),

how JavaScript can make dynamic Web pages

And privacy, netiquette, DB queries, etc,

What is the future of technology? We don't know, but

it will be familiar to you

You will see common concepts in the new tech

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Capabilities

The most ambitious goal of this class is to expand your thinking Reasoning, finding information, debugging,

designing pages or databases, problem solving, expecting the unexpected,…

It’s not easy to learn these things … Was debugging ever fun???

All capabilities useful beyond computing!

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Applying Fluency

In the coming years you will apply knowledge from this class Perhaps it will be programming

Perhaps it will be talking with a tech person at work or at school

Perhaps it will be figuring out why your computer is being a total @*!!

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What's next?

This course might have inspired some interest in information technologies

If it did not, remember this This is a digital society now

Using technologies well is an expected competency, especially for younger folks

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Technology Majors at UW

Lots to choose from

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Departments Focus

Computer Science and Engineering

- Programming- Animation- Robotics- Computer Engineering- Networks

iSchool - Human-Computer Interaction- Web Design (user experience)- Library Science- Social aspects of computing

DXarts - Web Design (visual)- Digital art

Human-Centered Design and Engineering

- Web Design (content)- Software documentation- User studies- Human-Computer Interaction

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Some last detailsDue dates, grading, extra credit, evaluations, etc.

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Regarding Grading

This course is not curved (classically) No lowering your grade relative to others

All students may be adjusted up

My first time teaching this course I will be adjusting percentages, points,

weightings, etc.

Any changes will be net positives

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Extra Credits

If you turn in 3B early, you can earn the following extra credit By Monday, 10pm earn 5pts

By Sunday, 10pm earn 8pts

By Saturday, 10pm earn 11pts

By Friday, 10pm earn 14pts

This requires both your dropbox files and your quiz submission to meet the deadlines

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More extra credit

0.5 late lecture for today Admitting my faults

Lab 8 went up late

Project 3A and 3B went up late

Worth 10pts to you all

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Do you want to gamble?

Here's the deal

The following question has 8 answers

Each has a hidden point value Four are 1s

Two are 3s

One is a 5

One is a 10

You earn extra credit based on the distribution of your clicker answers

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Please make your selection.

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A. Choice OneB. Choice TwoC. Choice ThreeD. Choice FourE. Choice FiveF. Choice SixG. Choice SevenH. Choice Eight

A B C D E F G H

7%

3%

28%

17%

8%

12%

17%

8%

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Please make your selection.

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A. 1B. 1C. 3D. 1E. 5F. 10G. 1H. 3

7.21% ╳ 1 = 0.0721

2.70% ╳ 1 = 0.0270

27.93% ╳ 3 = 0.8379

17.12% ╳ 1 = 0.1712

8.11% ╳ 5 = 0.4055

11.71% ╳ 10 = 1.1710

17.12% ╳ 1 = 0.1712

8.11% ╳ 3 = 0.2433

Total: 3.0992

Recognize your Awesome TAs

June Lee Tristan Huber Hannah Sherwood Rajesh Subramanian

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Thank You

You were my first class

There were mistakes

You accepted them and worked with me

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Thank you for being nice to my mama

Course Evaluation

You get two sheets

Bubble in answers on white sheet

Write on the yellow sheet things that will improve this class I will read these, so please be honest and write

something

I'm particularly interested in opinions on labs and topics we covered

Return pencils to box in front

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